Intelligent Design Is Just The Logos Theology

The Fundamental Claim Of Intelligent Design Is Straightforward And Easily Intelligible: Namely, There Are Natural Systems That Cannot Be Adequately Explained In Terms Of Undirected Natural Forces And That Exhibit Features Which In Any Other Circumstance We Would Attribute To Intelligence.

Intelligent Design Is A Modest Position Theologically And Philosophically. It Attributes The Complexity And Diversity Of Life To Intelligence, But Does Not Identify That Intelligence With The God Of Any Religious Faith Or Philosophical System.

Naturalism Is The View That The Physical World Is A Self-contained System That Works By Blind, Unbroken Natural Laws. Naturalism Doesn't Come Right Out And Say There's Nothing Beyond Nature. Rather, It Says That Nothing Beyond Nature Could Have Any Conceivable Relevance To What Happens In Nature. Naturalism's Answer To Theism Is Not Atheism But Benign Neglect. People Are Welcome To Believe In God, Though Not A God Who Makes A Difference In The Natural Order.

I Believe God Created The World For A Purpose. The Designer Of Intelligent Design Is, Ultimately, The Christian God.

If We Take Seriously The Word-flesh Christology Of Chalcedon (i.e., The Doctrine That Christ Is Fully Human And Fully Divine) And View Christ As The Telos Toward Which God Is Drawing The Whole Of Creation, Then Any View Of The Sciences That Leaves Christ Out Of The Picture Must Be Seen As Fundamentally Deficient.