re: #127 dentate

Ultimately, Judaism believes that the universe was created by God, and human beings were created by God separate from animals.

I spent at least a year studying exactly this very issue, asking numerous rabbis on the topic.

I honestly believe that intelligent design is what mainstream Judaism (and Christianity and Islam) proscribes.

Even the most basic rituals in these religions bely this. Why would there be prayer in these faiths, if there was not an idea that there was omnipotent force which answers prayer and interferes in our daily lives?

This does not make it “right,” but it is what I have come to see.

We are fooling ourselves if we believe that religion and science do not have at least some level of dispute over evolution, and the notion of natural selection and evolution from primates, which leaves God out of the equation.

Again, none of this renders intelligent design wrong. But it is this very issue which has resulted in the furor over intelligent design to begin with.