To the editor:

Have I missed a clear explanation about what intelligent design offers or proposes? It seems to be portrayed as “anti-evolution.” I guess I.D. contends that evolution does not explain everything. And I expect that is true.

Trying to imagine what might be offered as intelligent design (and they never name God, do they?) I believe I.D. contradicts my Christian faith.

First, I.D. seems to argue about God (or something/some things else) explaining or filling in the gaps. As science learns more, this means that the gaps are being narrowed and diminished. My God cannot be so depreciated and made less relevant. God isn’t in just the leftovers.

Or I.D. may function with the idea that God set up systems and the world goes on from what God started. That notion is quite different from what I read in the Scriptures of a God who acts and interacts with Israel and with the creatures and becomes human with us in Christ. Our lives and world are not only controlled by a grand design from a grand designer.

Also, I.D. is quite inadequate for the problem of evil. The world has marvelous designs in our bodies and wonders in nature and yet it has tsunamis and hurricanes and deformities and tragic misfortunes. My God cares for us all in spite of what I may do or what may come in this world.

So I reject I. D. for my identity as a Christian.

Don Conrad,

Lawrence