Firstly, let's delve back into history a bit and find out just where this creationism canard came from in the first place. Bear in mind that the Bible was considered uncontrovertible fact when archeology was first beginning to be studied.

A gentleman by the name of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, didn't exactly aid accurate studies of fossils. However, in all fairness, who could blame him? They had no carbon 14 dating in those days, let alone the vastly more accurate instruments lately developed.

Anyway, he came to the conclusion, from the records he pulled from the Bible, that Adam lived to be 930 years old. Seven generations later, Methuselah reached the age of 969 before succumbing, with his grandson Noah knocking on the Pearly Gates at the youthful age of 950 years.

The good Archbishop calculated all these dates and came up with the date for Creation at 4004 B.C. One of his successors, a Dr. John Lightfoot, narrowed the timeline down even further, when he made public the startling fact that Creation occurred on the 23rd. October at 9 a.m.!

Since the Bible was the inviolate Word of God, as already stated, this accuracy of dating could hardly be argued.

Now, I've rather made light of all this, but in all fairness, what else had they to go on?

The second thing I find interesting is Intelligent Design. In the book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, by Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., he states in part on page 4 that "Since I.D. relies on evidence rather than on Scripture or religious doctrines, it is not Creationism or a form of religion."

So one's faced with the question; who put the intelligence into Intelligent Design? If I.D's. correct, then how did it come about?

Do we have the Trinity all wrong? Did God the Father turn to Jesus Christ, presumably an entirely separate entity, and say: "Okay, old boy. Create the universe, but leave my name out of it."

Either that, or perhaps God called for a plenary council of the senior Cherubim and told them to come up with a plan.

I think that most people agree that Creationism is wrong science, if indeed it's worthy of the name 'science.' But at least they have a Plan, however skewed it may be, still clutching desperately to the theories of Ussher and Lightfoot.

But it seems that these I.D. types have pulled some nebulous theory out of mid air and are attempting a middle course. A dilution of two schools of thought, both mixed together in the pot of the absurd.

Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond