Template talk:Creation-evolution table
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- gradual appearance: science and ID agree, fundamentalist creationsts oppose
- cause of new forms: science says mutation, etc.; ID posits an unspecified "intelligent agent"; Creationists say God
- "guidance" (see unguided evolution): science makes reference to natural selection; ID says intelligent agent; Creationism says God
(pretty much same as above)
- "God caused new forms to appear": science usually chooses not to address the question, but some evolutionary materialists explicitly say No!; ID implies a yes, some forms of theistic evolution say yes explicitly; Roman Catholicism joins fundamentalist Creationists to say yes
Evolutionary materialism is a view expressed/held by Carl Sagan (world-famous scientists but not a biologist), Richard Dawkins, and the 38 Nobel-prize winning scientists in the fields of medicine, physics & chemistry who made a joint statement with holocuast survivor and humanist Elie Wiezel.
I.D. implies that the intelligent cause is God, without explicitly saying so. Surely this is a strategic omission. One can only suppose their argument runs like this:
- some intelligent force must have been involved in evolution
- maybe it's God!
These are rough notes I'd like to use to create some tables which can help us Wikipedia contributors clarify articles which relate to the U.S. creation-evolution controversy. Uncle Ed 15:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
