Intelligent Design Does Not Support Christianity

========= Age of Earth & Genesis ========= My opponent asserts that the earth is not 6,000 years old under a Biblical perspective because genealogical age calculations may have been inaccurate. He says that names or entire lineages were left out. That may be true, but it still doesn't make a difference. Even if they were a hundred years off, or even a thousand years off, it's nowhere near 14 billion years. Why haven't Biblical scholars come up with an older age? It may be true that a 6,000 year old earth based on the Bible may be inaccurate, but it is clear that it implies a young earth. 14 billion years just doesn't make sense from a Biblical standpoint because of the enormous gap between Genesis and Babylon. My opponent insists that Genesis is not to be taken literally and provides his own theory as to why. His own theory or speculation about the intentions of Genesis is not proof against my position. I contend that Genesis is meant to be taken literally. He asserts that the purpose of the story was not to represent how God created, but that he created. If that were the case, it would have simply said that God created the Universe. Instead, it describes in detail exactly how God created the Universe. It didn't get into specifics just to entertain the reader. If you're going to take the Bible literally, Genesis is no exception. ============= Intelligent Designer VS Yahweh ============= {*My opponent is playing word games. YHWH = God. I absolutely agree that the Bible asserts theological characteristics of said God.*} I am in no way playing word games. You are asserting that your opinion Yahweh = God is a fact, and because I object, you think I am playing word games. I am clearly stating that Yahweh is NOT God. Yahweh is just another personified deity like Zeus, Mithra, Dionysus, and Osiris. Everyone wants to claim that their god is the one, true God, including your claim that it is Yahweh. If it were proven that there was an intelligent cause for the Universe, what proof do you have that it is Yahweh? You act as if Yahweh = God is an absolute fact. It's not, it's you're opinion. Again, this quote makes it clear that if there were an intelligent cause of the Universe, it could not possibly be any personified god of a religion, including Christianity: "The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist's sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion." - Richard Dawkins What makes Yahweh so special over all the other gods to be labeled as THE intelligent designer? My opponent provides an analogy explaining that Christianity asserts that god exists with certain characteristics and that intelligent design affirms the existence, but not the characteristics. I disagree. Christianity asserts that a specific god exists (Yahweh) with specific attributes (jealous, vengeful, and other human-like traits and emotions). Intelligent design does not imply a specific god nor does it give attributes. I equate Intelligent Design with the Big Bang theory because both are scientific theories about the origin of the Universe. This allows for theologians to claim that their god is responsible. Of course, both assertions would be baseless claims. Like I said, the intelligent cause doesn't necessarily denote a deity. It could be mere evidence that the Universe is intelligent. This would completely contradict the existential and theological claims of Christianity. In the end, unless you can prove that the alleged intelligent cause = Yahweh, then intelligent design does not support Christianity. ============= Deism/Pantheism vs Theism ============= My opponent affirms my resolution: "No one is saying that ID supports Christian Theology. They are saying that it supports the Christian claim that a God exists." Christianity = Christian theology. Therefore, you admit that ID does not support Christianity. My opponent asserts that ID does not need to support the Biblical theology, but rather supports the Christian claim that God exists. If God is discovered, and it turns out to be an intelligent Universe or Zeus, is it still a Christian claim? No. The Christian claim would be that the one true God is Yahweh who did everything as described in the Bible. So it's not that Christianity claims that God exists, but rather that their god Yahweh exists. ============= Conclusion ============= In conclusion, my opponent affirmed my resolution thus demonstrating that Intelligent Design does not support Christianity (Christian theology.) In the end, Intelligent Design only supports Deism and Pantheism, not Theism. My opponent consistently agreed that Intelligent Design does not support any theological claims in Christianity, which is enough to affirm my resolution. He tried to make it look as though the claim that God exists is "central to Christianity" though this is not true. That is the Deistic claim. Central to Christianity is it's theology, which ID does not support. Thank you for reading. Resolution affirmed. .