Intelligent Design

Scholars and theologians have debated for centuries the question of "intelligent design".  Are humans designed by God for a purpose?  Or did we evolve over millions of years, as the Darwinists believe?

I think it's a false choice.  Clearly, humans can design things, and humans are merely made of matter.  So it's possible for some types of matter to design other types of matter.  It's certainly feasible that the process of evolution has a built-in design capability.

It's useful to look at Economics for an example of how this might work.  Businessmen and entrepreneurs devise new ideas, and raise capital (money) to make them happen.  In some cases (as with the FederalExpress package delivery system), an idea takes billions of dollars to implement, and needs to be fully operational from the first day.  It's impossible to evolve such a design slowly and incrementally.

In other words, certain types of matter (known as "humans") have devised a way to create radically new businesses, without having to evolve them incrementally.  Evolution is simply a process of matter reconfiguring itself over time into new combinations.

Therefore, I believe that evolution is compatible with intelligent design, and that we simply haven't uncovered the mechanism yet.