Intelligent Design is Bad Theology

Intelligent Design is a gap theory. It is from a long line of ideas that put God in gaps in human knowledge or understanding.

This is theologically ludicrous because by creation Gods attributes can be clearly seen and God has made himself known.

God does not hide in the gaps within human knowledge.

Intelligent design states that because things are to complicated to happen on their own there must have been a 'higher power' that intelligently designed them.

The problem with this is that the 'higher power' does not necessarily have to be The God of The Bible if a god at all.

The 'higher power' can be anything.

Also, as Intelligent Design is a gap theory it does not disprove evolution but rather fills in the gaps and as a result it does not prove that Genesis 1-3 are accurate accounts.

Any gap theory is unscientific because science is about discovering what is not known by deduction

As much that is not explained now will be explained as human knowledge increases the gaps will get smaller until the idea will backfire.

Intelligent Design is both unscientific and theologically not Christian

It's a new version of the pre-adamic race theory which claimed dinosaurs existed before God made Adam and that demons are spirits of the people of the pre-adamic race.

Of course that is nonsense.

Gap Theorists Committed to literal creation because of their acceptance of a “literal” view of Genesis cannot accept the conclusions of evolution based on the geologic column. Nor can they accept that the days in the Genesis record correspond to geologic periods. So they propose that God reshaped the earth and re-created all life in six literal days after “Lucifer's flood” (which produced fossils); hence the name “ruin-reconstruction.” Satan's sin supposedly caused this flood and the resulting judgment upon that sin reduced the previous world to a state of being “without form and void.”

While the gap theorist may think Lucifer's flood solves the problem, this actually removes the reason for the theory in the first place. If all, or most, of the sediments and fossils were produced quickly in one massive worldwide Lucifer's flood, then the main “evidence” that the earth is extremely old (based on the assumed slow formation of the sediments) no longer exists.

Yet again this goes against orthodox theology. In The beginning God created The Heavens and The Earth. Young Earth Creationists, Old Earth Creationists and Theist Evolutionists within The Church all agree that in the beginning God created The Heavens and The Earth and did not reconstruct them.

God is not the source of Creations initial reconstruction but the source of its entire existence from nothing.

God created The Universe we live in today from nothing. It is against 2000 years of Church teaching and The Bible to say that God reconstructed The Universe from something that already existed.

It infers that God did not at first make The Earth for us but for the devil. That is theological insanity.

The fact that The Gap Theory is scientifically ludicrous is not the worst thing about it but that it is theologically not Christian.

From The Gap Theory came Intelligent Design Theory

What Christians don’t get is that The Gap Theory never worked in the first place and will continue not to work. They are playing themselves into the Atheists hands.

Atheists would say that science proved there is not a God, meaning that the gap that God once occupied has been filled by human knowledge.

Those who adhere to Intelligent Design are fighting against this assertion by trying to use science to show that the gap is not filled, which means there is still room for God's existence. As scientific knowledge increases the gap gets smaller.

As by creation Gods attributes can be clearly seen and God has made himself known it is ludicrous for us to be looking for him in gaps within human knowledge.

What is known by us is evidence for Gods existence and not what we don’t know.

Intelligent Design advocates also like using probabilities. As probabilities are not constant they are no argument for or against Gods existence. The question isn’t if God is probable but if God is actual.

Another problem is that Intelligent Design does not prove the historical fact of Christ’s death and resurrection which is what the Christian faith stands on.