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This paper discusses how the question of how life was created is one which has proven extremely tense throughout the duration of modern arguments. The paper looks at how theorists who posit the idea of intelligent design believe that the world is much too complex to have been randomly allocated through successful mutations, as evolutionists believe. These thinkers believe that some intelligent being had to have been responsible for satisfying the exact needs of specific species within concentrated habitats. In comparison, the paper examines how evolutionists staunchly disagree, and completely trust in the concept of natural selection through individual adaptations.

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"The largest critique theorists of Intelligent Design present their evolutionist counterparts is that no levels of randomness could ever produce the world as we know it today. The entire evolutionist theory rests on the foundation of the benefits of randomness, yet proponents of Intelligent Design believe this to be the biggest fallacy. Every seemingly simple component of the earth's climate and habitats has sequential properties, and "As a result, the presence of specified information-rich sequences in even the simplest living systems would seem to imply intelligent design," (Meyer 274). Another critique Intelligent Design believers place on the evolutionist view which has dominated for so long--fallacies. In many cases, the teaching of evolution to high school kids and beyond presents a breeding ground for falsified information, as seen in the case of embryo drawings in textbooks being completely different to the real images of embryos, "On the subject of Darwinian evolution, the texts contained massive distortions and even some faked evidence," (Wells 1). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. Basic Books. 2002.
• Meyer, S. C. "DNA and the Origin of Life: Information, specification and explanation." Darwinism, Design, & Public Education. Michigan State University Press. 2003. Pp. 223-285.
• Sloan, Phillip. "Evolution." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008. Retrieved 29 Nov 2008 at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution/#2.2.
• Tungate, Mel. "Evolution Court Cases." Tungate. 2006. Retrieved 30 Nov 2008 at http://www.tungate.com/evolution_court_cases.htm.
• Wells, Jonathan. "Survival of the Fakest." American Spectator. 101 (6). 1996. Retrieved 30 Nov 2008 at http://www.discovery.org/articleFiles/PDFs/survivalOfTheFakest.pdf

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