Why is God active in the world but we reject Intelligent Design?

Welcome – I see this is your first post, and a good question.

Intelligent Design (both words capitalized) – ID advocates maintain that it is scientific and that design is something that is scientifically demonstrable. ECs don’t.

How God is active in his creation is an ongoing discussion and will be, because we cannot isolate instances to examine them. My contention is that similar to his providential M.O. when he intervenes in his children’s lives1 without breaking any natural laws, he can do that with evolution, orchestrating timing and events. So as in individual’s lives we know the Cause and the effect(s), but the how is a wonderful mystery, how God who is spirit can effect physical changes. (So I believe in intelligent design, but with a lowercase ‘id’.)
 


1 A number of instances, not of subjective testimony, but accounts that deal with objective facts are proffered here: Factual evidence for Christians to rejoice in, remember and recount and for true seekers to ponder.

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