Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

I see this is a subject fraught with dangers to religion.  First of all, there is absolutely no conflict between "intelligent design" and evolution as defined by the sciences.  All that "intelligent design" implies is that the first successful DNA molecule which became the building block for every living thing and "living thing" byproduct on this Earth was the work of deliberate design rather than chance and circumstance.  Whether either are true makes absolutely no difference to any physical thing on this Earth, they both lead us to where we are now.  However, god seems to be most supported by "intelligent design" and religion is most supported by chance and circumstance, for religion's view of the human race supports an out-of-control undesigned product, something they have appointed themselves to bring under control, forced to live by their 'rules'.  "Intelligent design" implies a deliberate purpose to the creation of humanity, and if one believes that god is perfect and intelligent, then that implies that his works are 'perfect' also.  So if we were deliberately designed from the beginning, what we do must have been part of that design.  It is an easy step from here to see what we were designed to do, it is openly visible to all, all of the time, for the human race is obviously a single purpose entity, it only does one single thing.  It creates new knowledge.  This is the only common thread that runs through all of humanity, and has always been that 'single thread' or common trait of humanity since the first man stood on his hind feet and planned his own future.  All else we do is a byproduct of this single purpose, which we all  participate in as a direct participant or a support element.  No normal human being is exempt from having original thoughts.   And these original thoughts, when acted upon, become the new discoveries and inventions we have created, new philosophies and 'beliefs' we have created, commonly known otherwise as 'progress'.

Now, how can this be a danger to religion you may ask?  Someone is going to raise the question "I god is perfect, and his creation, the human race is perfect and doing as he designed it to do, what is the purpose of religion, why do we need it?"  And someone will answer "Religion is just another political organization we have invented along with all of our other inventions of physical things, philosophies,  and political organizations", and that will be followed by an argument about the validity of religion itself rather than an argument about the validity of the claims of the religions, something that heretofore the religions have managed to avoid, or quash.  Or they must concede that god is a goofup that created a goofup human race that requires a totalitarian control organization to keep it "in line", where invention is just one of the ugly things it does.  But that brings the next logical question "Why should we 'worship' a goofup god?".

I go with intelligent design that says evolution is but a tool of that design where intelligent design and evolution are inseparable, complementary, and intertwined. And god KNEW what he was doing, and we know automatically what WE are to do, for that is what we do, by purpose.

Now that we know why we exist, what will we do about it?