Intelligent Design vs. Evolution Analytical Essay by Nicky

This paper focuses on "intelligent design," explaining that the philosophy's major tenets amount to an adjustment - or an offshoot - in philosophy from creationism. The paper notes that the theory of intelligent design states that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, rather than by an undirected process such as natural selection. The paper asserts that there can be no doubt among serious scholars that Darwin's theory of evolution is logical and based on science, but what apparently bothers some fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives is that Darwin's theory posits that humans evolved from apes. This will likely always be a sticking point for anti-evolutionist thinking, the paper predicts, but opines that what is worse in this country is when politics sticks its ugly head in between science and religion, as it does on occasion. The paper concludes that federal judges aren't in place to please their political benefactors; they are in place to defend the U.S. Constitution, which made it clear there must be a separation of church and state.