New and highly sophisticated arguments are brought forth in the never-ending struggle to cast doubt on Darwin’s theory of evolution. Books and charts with symbols and complex matrices have been prepared and circulated that purport to prove that the first living cell on Earth was too complex to have arisen by chance alone, so it must have been deliberately designed by “something” intelligent. Most of the original Intelligent Designers now seem to accept, or weakly tolerate, Darwin’s proposition that all life forms evolved by natural selection over time from a single living cell.

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Newly devised and, in my opinion, desperate attempts to cast doubt on the theory of evolution are raging again. Some fundamentalist religious groups, whose members strongly believe the entire text of the Bible is literally true, say the theory must be rejected because it contradicts the story of Creation in Genesis. Other groups claim their opposition to the theory is not based on religion but on common sense. Their primary assertion is that the universe shows “obvious” signs of being designed by something intelligent, and that life is too complex to have arrived on Earth by chance.

After the first groups’ many attempts to remove evolution theory from class rooms failed, the second group began efforts to persuade school boards to require the inclusion of Intelligent Design theories into biology classes for school children to consider as an alternative explanation for how life arrived on Earth. So far, both of these mutually dependent groups have failed.

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Many people have experienced the awful feeling of jet lag that results from crossing international time zones. Some of its symptoms include disorientation, grogginess and irrational thinking. Do groups supporting teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design in public schools may have an answer to the troubling question of why so many of the Intelligent Designer’s designs have obvious flaws and useless features?

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I am often wrong making predictions, but I feel very confident that school children will find bizarre the notion that space aliens visited Earth thousands of years ago and left Adam and Eve behind to build the human race. Of course, they would have had to have made many other trips before this one to bring all the other plants, animals, and microorganisms that lived here before Adam and Eve. This is only one suggestion being made by some to counter the theory of evolution that is now the basis for all the biological sciences. Their main argument is that life is too complex to have begun by “chance” so it must have been “designed” by something “intelligent.”

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