Season 3 Podcast 47 Intelligent Design

Intelligent DesignFrom a Christian perspective, the ultimate answer will have to be intelligent design.  For intelligent design to exist, there must be an intelligent designer.  The designer must have the following attributes:·       Omniscience·       Omnipotence·       OmnipresenceAll Christians generally accept intelligent design because fundamental to Christianity is the idea that Jesus Christ is the creator of man and earth. That God created all men equal is a fundamental tenant of a democratic republic and of Christianity. Upon no other foundation can freedom be based.  Christians are passionate about liberty because they want to maintain the gift of freewill.  The world today denies the existence of God, the absolute nature of law and reality, the equality of man, and the existence of freewill.  If we lose sight of the fact that God exists, that God, not man, created equality, that agency is only possible because of moral absolutes, that freedom is only possible through obedience to the laws of God, temporal and spiritual, that freewill is inherent in every soul who comes to this earth, and that liberty can only last in a nation where the laws of man are in harmony with the laws of God.  If we lose that vision, then our freedom is forfeit and all social and political programs, no matter how well meaning, will lead to captivity, slavery, and misery. Let me offer one Christian’s view of the principle of Intelligent Design. Fundamental to Intelligent Design is the absolute nature of the Law of Justice. Consider the law of justice as having the following attributes:1.     The power of God2.     The perfection of God3.     The holiness of God4.     The knowledge of God5.     The unconditional law of God6.     The governing law of all lawsJustice does not exist outside of God and God does not exist outside of justice.  God organized both temporal laws and spiritual laws, all governed by perfect justice.  We ordinarily think of justice as fairness. Fairness is a manmade term suggesting arbitration. Justice must be perfect and absolute and unchangeable. Everything must adhere to the law of justice.  That applies to all temporal laws and to all spiritual laws. One does not think of fairness when speaking of gravity.  One thinks of absolute law. Gravity cannot be cheated. There must be a supreme law that governs all laws, including gravity, and that supreme law is justice. Even the law of mercy must obey the law of justice else justice would be arbitrary, meaning God would be arbitrary. God cannot be arbitrary and remain God. Mercy satisfied justice.  That is why we have moral commandments. The law of justice was violated when Adam ate the forbidden fruit. Christ satisfied the law of justice by atoning for our sins. He suffered so that we don’t have to if we obey his commandments whose boundaries are set by the law of justice.We live in a fallen world; therefore, our laws temporal and spiritual are conditional.  Where God lives, there is no entropy. To preserve freedom, all temporal laws organized by God for this earth are based on the principle of causality, meaning they have both a cause and an effect.  By obeying the conditions of law, we may benefit from the consequences of law.  That is what gives us our freedom. A nation that does not account for the physical laws of nature is not free.