DB 13: What is Order?

Be sure to first read the Intelligent “Design Arguments” in the Ultimate Questions text. Next, go to the evolution website at UC Berkeley: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php (Links to an external site.) (Note: You may want to open up a new window since some websites limit your ability to come back to blackboard easily. To do so in most browsers, right-click on the hyperlink above and scroll down to “Open Link in New Window”.)

• If you are unfamiliar with Evolution, click onhttp://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01 (Links to an external site.)  Skim through the basic concepts.
• The Assignment:Go to the “Misconceptions about Evolution” part of the website at http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_teacherfaq.php (Links to an external site.) There are a few dozen listed that you can click on to. You do not need to view all of the misconceptions but at least note 3 or 4 of them.  (Links to an external site.)
• In this discussion board, discuss what best explains the order found in the universe.
• In your answer be sure to include at least one commentpertaining to one or both of the following:
  • The evolution website.
  • Paley’s solution in our reading.
• For these sources you might offer a critique or supporting evidence. Feel free to copy and paste a short portion of the website if it helps further your analysis.

DB 13: What is Order? Answer 

The Design Arguments is about the existence of God whereby the world is designed specifically. The basic premise is that if we are designed, then someone (or perhaps something) has designed it for such purpose: design (or creation).

The order of the universe is a complex topic that involves the relationships of created beings with one another and with God itself. Such an order is explained by either theological or scientific. Scientifically, the order of the universe is explained by the theory of evolution.