When I started college at [University of Puerto Rico] it surprised me that a lot of the people in my department had such a strong spirituality to merely be called Christians. I thought most of the students and scientists would have my line of thought as to what God is. When I learned about intelligent design, not knowing much about it, I thought it was a “subtheory” of evolution. Of course the creationists tried to convince me, but I wasn’t swayed. This is their chance to say that a supreme being (god) exists in order to counter the effects of the feared topic of evolution. The thing going on here is that the creationists look for an excuse to be able to bring God back to this world so full of sin and to be able to control society once again. This is an excellent idea for them because that’s the goal of everyone that has power (“government”). It’s also difficult on experiments alone to determine how the first amino acid was formed before life emerged. This kind of biology is speculative, that being its weak point against creationism. Still, it is concluded, according to evolutionists, that intelligent design is not based on the scientific method, unlike evolution. In science an observation is needed in order to conduct an experiment. When the experiment has been run several times and you always get a conclusive answer, then it passes on to being a theory. Therefore, ID doesn’t even come close to what ideal research would be. It’s a religio-philosophical analysis to explain why we’re here. It bothers me that they use science as a means to justify their cause. Maybe in this paragraph we’ll find ourselves in a sort of midpoint in which creation by a higher being is incomprehensible to me, or on the other hand, it would be absurd to them to think that such a “perfect” universe had not been created by that higher being. Maybe ID would be more tenable as a science fiction story. That intelligent being would be part of the race of the sdioesieh (that’s what it would sound like to us in order to understand) with technology advanced enough to control and recreate space-time, create matter/energy, specially hydrogen, my favorite element, and then control our stars’ nuclear reactions to form the atoms necessary to generate carbon based life. I should pitch this idea to the scientologists to see what they say… overall I agree with the religious world in the sense of promoting a society with fraternity as its purpose. Yeah, it sounds like a Miss Universe speech, and I like it like that. I like being able to read that professor’s opinion. I’m going to see if a discussion of these topics is possible at UPR.
Changing the subject, it’s good that we’re still alive. I hope this semester has started well for you and that you’re ok, even if “ok” is relative. Take care.
-guillermo
This is the translated version. The original is here.
Guillermo, miralo por encima y me dices si lo traduje bien.
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