What is the difference between "creationism" and "intelligent design"?

[battleknight24]

... in a nutshell...


Peace,

[haele]

1. Creationism is one word

Intelligent Design is two.

One's been around a lot longer than the other, too.

Other than that, nothing. Apparently, that new ID "biology text book", "Of Pandas and People" was originally written before Creationism was changed to ID, and the only difference is they changed the word "Creationism" to "Intelligent Design" and "Creator" to "Designer".
There's still no indication that any "Creator" or "Designer" than the Aramaic MonoDiety commonly known as "G*d", "Yawah*" or "Alla*" could be considered.

No Mayan 3 worlds, no "Summerland", no "Mother Sky spirit dropping an egg into the oceans", no Saturn eating his kids, no Giants in Permafrost; all of which can be linked to a metaphoric version of some sort of life beginning on Earth event. Just a Creator, seven days("let there be light"), and a serpent in the Garden, all supposedly making a fool of Darwin with some "unknowable science" hidden in the gaps of experimentation, evidence, and knowledge.

Bah, Humbug. It still isn't scientific or uses scientific principles to prove the premise of the book. It's faith - another version of some sort of New Age Christian Bible - not science.
Teach it in sociology or anthropology as part of a comparative religion class, if you feel the need to expose kids to some sort of common belief system.

Haele

[mykpart]

2. That's so different from what I thought!

See, I went to Catholic school, and we learned about evolution, and we also studied the Bible. We were taught that the Biblical account of creation was a parable meant to illustrate the truth that God had created the world and that a day to God was not a 24 day, but could have meant an "era" or a millenium, or any span of time, since God is eternal. And all this time I have been thinking that creationism meant a literal interpretation of Genesis, and ID was like what I had been taught.

Actually, I have no problem with creationism being taught in school, provided it is taught as Christian mythology and not as science.