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ID is not creationism
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2005, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

The intelligent design movement has been wholly misunderstood in this Public Forum. ID is not just a fancy way of describing literal biblical creationism. It is far different.

I took a science and religion class this past semester at Utah State University. We talked about ID as well as many other views about evolution. There are two parts to evolution: 1) descent with modification, and 2) through random mutations.

Literal biblical creationism disagrees with both points, but ID agrees with the first. It says there are many organisms that could not have evolved to their present state through random mutations, so there must have been an intelligent being that oversaw, or guided, the process. But again, it believes in the Big Bang, it believes life formed millions of years ago, and it believes humans evolved from monkeys, just not randomly.

ID does not disagree with science. It simply has created a different theory based on the same observations as evolution. Please learn about what is being discussed before offering your opinion.

Bryan Hinton

North Logan

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