Intelligent Design

This is my first post in few months now.... To be honest I probably wouldn't have made another post ever if it hadn't been for my stumbling upon the debate of intelligent design and it's place in science. I may have lost many users with that last sentence. The debate I pose here about intelligent design is not a religious one, it is one based around freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom to voice an opinion against the "norm" without being excommunicated from the world or "rational" thinking. I do not believe in God in the conventional sense, I was raised protestant and have struggled with faith my entire life. Throughout my educational career I have been at odds with evolution, I could and can see its truths and its value to science, and they defiantly lead to some of my religious questioning. But I also saw flaws, flaws that you see in most theories, especially ones that try to explain so much with just it's one process or over arching principle. There is enough unknown for there to be space for the debate on intelligent design, not creationism not radical theological denial-ism, but intelligent design, loosely defined as The presence of intelligence in the design of life, i.e the development of cell structures DNA etc with guidance rather than strict randomness and natural selection.
Backing theses ideas have left many scientists and journalists out of the job, black listed just at the mention of the idea. This is unacceptable, the United States is a country based on freedom, we should be allowed to voice our opinions without fear of losing grants or being fired from our well deserved jobs. This control is exactly what Darwin faced when he was developing his theory he was the lone wave against the establishment in his time, Now his ideas have been canonized creating a new establishment that is just as stifling to scientific discovery as it was in Darwin's time. Back on track I am not here to say that either Darwinism or Intelligent design are perfect and that one need be taught over the other. I would just like to see people treat Intelligent design fairly giving it a chance to develop and explain what it can in conjunction with current scientific norms.


For more information about the subject please check out Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. It's on net flix watch instantly under documentaries. And check out the Discovery Institute