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Intelligent design ?

I don't have so much a problem with that as I do the absolutely ridiculous arguments being proffered in it's defense. Even as a person who believes in a Higher Being myself I am often in disgusted awe of the idiocies presented by some who support ID. It's willful ignorance and the less some of these people know the louder and more violently they defend it. There is an awful lot more in the first chapter of Genesis than you find in the plain text of the KJV, but what these folks are preaching isn't it.

Personally, The more I read about the origins of life I find myself leaning towards exogenesis in one form or another (whether by design or not) as the most likely answer. It makes more sense to me than anything else I have heard so far...Life begets Life. I consider this position a long way from that of the Id'ers even though some may find it just as unlikely.

I am not certain I buy all the way into the panspermia hypothesis but that's just me ..I think because it is too inclusive...though life IS probably the norm and not the exception. There is certainly no evidence against it.

The truth is we don't know...our best guess is just that. Our science is still in it's infancy and ALL our ideas and theories may prove wrong in time.

Not that we should drop the question...just be a little more discerning about what is fact and what is believed.

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