The Intelligent Design movement holds that life forms are too complex to have been formed by natural processes and must have been fashioned by a higher intelligence, which is never elucidated but which most adherents believe to be God.

Many US schools, mostly in the religious South, have been offering Intelligent Design as an alternate theory to Darwin’s evolution theory. As a result, many scientists and supporters of Darwin’s argument that the thinking and rational Man evolved from the primitive ape up in the arms. The district judge’s ruling that held the teaching of Intelligent Design theory at a school in Dover, Pennsylvania, as ‘unconstitutional’ will no doubt come as a shot in the arm to the so-called rationalists. The judge held that the Intelligent Design is a ‘religious view, a mere relabelling of creationism and not a scientific theory.’

While it’s almost certain that the issue will be debated, in and out of courts, for a long time to come, it is hard not to marvel at the unreasonable stance taken by the so-called rationalists and experts. Even those who do not believe in the genesis and creation — as held by monotheistic Abrahamic faiths, Islam, Christianity and Judaism — would agree that Darwin’s explanation is but one of the many scientific theories. And many scientific theories in the past have been proven false and rejected by subsequent research. Intelligent Design is but yet another attempt to understand and explain the complexity of life and our world. And what is wrong if it is taught as a theory in schools along with Darwin’s? After all, all education is but a continuous quest to examine and understand the essential nature of things.

Even if Darwin’s followers do not accept other theories, it doesn’t change the facts that are all there for everyone to see. The whole of creation is a testimony to the power that runs this whole, mind-boggling business. Whether we agree or not, whether we believe in creation or evolution, we cannot ignore the clear and intelligent design that is so obvious in everything around us. You do not have to be a believer to see there indeed exists an Intelligent Design in all life, death and the re-birth.