I am not talking about the Creation Story in Genesis. That is NOT Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design, as I understand it's popular meaning, is looking at creation and seeing the hand of a creator in it. Genesis 1 is explicit that our God is the Creator. Intelligent Design cannot make that assumption without a leap of faith. I have leapt, I believe our God is the intelligent designer, as does Genesis 1, but I am asking a different question.
Does the bible give its permission for Intelligent Design to be used? Are we permitted to look at nature in order to see God? Or is God only revealed to us in the bible? Is creation at best the artful project of a God we can then pursue in the Scriptures?
I think we have permission. Job 12: 7-10:
"But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach yo; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In his hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of every human being."
In Genesis 1, we have the story of creation. In Job 12, we have the creation telling the story. Yes, it makes the leap of faith that our Lord is the Creator Lord. It is the bible, after all.
The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the RRSV Bible, Copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Educatin of the Nation al Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used b permission, all rights reserved."
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