What are similarities between creation and intelligent design?

Answer 1

Intelligent design in just another name for Creation. Believers in creationism don't want to use the word creation because it reflects a religious bias. Natural selection can be thought of as a component of evolutionary theory. At this point, proponents of Intelligent Design have not presented a unified, well formulated mechanism or model; it is a concept and not yet a coherent scientific theory.

Answer 2

The key similarity between the Intelligent Design hypotheses and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is that they both seek to explain the evolution of species. Yes, I intentionally described both concepts as relating to 'evolution', because possibly the most important Intelligent Design hypothesis, described by Michael Behe, does accept the reality of evolution, but claims that it was guided by an unseen deity. Natural Selection does not require a deity, but does not dispute the possible existence of an unseen deity.

So, both concepts accept at least some of the scientific evidence, but Natural Selection is wholly scientific in that it demands provable evidence, while Intelligent Design rejects as much as possible of science and makes assumptions about 'chance' and 'design'.

Both deal with the possibility of irreducable complexity. The Intelligent Design hypotheses look for evidence of organic structures that may seem irreducably complex, so as to prove that they could not have evolved by chance, thus requiring an unseen designer. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection looks for evidence of organic structures that may seem irreducably complex, so as to establish the process by which they actually evolved, accepting that nothing evolves by chance.

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Answer 3

The main similarity between the Theory of Evolution and biblical creation stories is that they both seek to explain how we, and all the other species around us, came to be. Apart from this, they differ enormously, because the Theory of Evolution is based on proven scientific evidence, while the creation stories are based on faith.
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Answer 4

Biblical creation tells us that God created every living creature just as they now exists. Creationism seek to harmonise that with the claims of science that living creatures evolved new species over a long period of time.

"Creation Science" was introduced to replace creationism in order to circumvent decisions of the United States courts that only science could be taught to schoolchildren in science classes. When this failed, Creation Science being deemed a religious notion and not science, in spite of the name, Intelligent Design was introduced. Proponents of Intelligent Design said that it is not a religious concept because it is neutral as to who the creator is.

Intelligent Design is the child of Creation Science and of Creationism, and therefore bears very close similarities to those concepts. It has fewer similarities to biblical creation. It is similar to biblical creation in that, depending on the version of Intelligent Design, it holds that the apparent design found in nature shows that the creator did create everything just as we see it now, or that the designer guided the process of evolution with a divine design for everything.

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Answer 5

The narrative of Creation (Genesis ch.1) attributes it directly to God, while Intelligent Design names no Creator; it just points out the infinite wisdom in the created things. See also:

What_are_some_proofs_offered_by_Creationists

http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-philosophy/can-you-prove-that-god-exists

http://www.allaboutscience.org/intelligent-design.htm

http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/sci-ev/sci_vs_ev_26.htm

Answer 6

Both Creationist scientists and evolutionary scientists use the same evidence, but arrive at different conclusions to it based on opposing worldviews.

Answer 7

They are similar in only one way. That would be the way of explaining how change in animal types changed over time.