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If Intelligent Design is better than Evolution, is a Planned Economy better than the Free Market?

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1. These two arguments are mutually exclusive. Intelligent design is not necessarily better than evolution. There are definitely natural selection processes that occur. For example, moths in certain environments have assumed the same color as their surroundings to evade predators. But I think its naive to think that there is not an overall design element to life forms. For example, creating the moth to begin with. As far as a planned economy, this has been tried with the USSR that is the latest destruction of that theory. Also, China has made huge changes to introduce capitalism and free markets and is becoming a huge world market player as a result. To say that Intelligent design is comparable to planned economies is a warped argument because there are facets of each in both.
2. lol socialism socialism brings forced religion, a planned economy, and a bunch of poor people who can't get ahead no matter how hard they try (easier for the camel to go through the needle's eye than for a rich man to enter heaven) a planned economy is one where supply is created to meet demand; compared to capitilism where demand is created to meet supply.
3. Faulty Analogy, use some critical thinking skills please. And I believe yes (I am not a communist) but I imagine a much better system.
4. Apples and oranges, bro. Intelligent design and neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory are competing systems of *explanation.* Planned economies and free-market economies are different *social* systems. You'd be better off asking: "If intelligent design is better than evolution, is Marxist economic analysis better than classical liberal economic analysis?" The answer to that question is that each analytical system has advantages and disadvantages; each address issues that the other fails to address; each has its own characteristic insights and blind spots. And the most productive systems are syntheses of both -- such as Keynesian economics. Maybe there can be a synthesis of ID and neo-Darwinian theory.
5. Kudos for the effort, Dude, but I don't think the analogy quite works :) The ridiculousness of ID is obvious: it doesn't *explain* anything. Its entire premise is: We don't know the origin of a particular something, so that something MUST have come from god (by design). Two huge problems with that...first, not knowing the origin of something does NOT prove it was designed by god -- it just proves we don't know. Second, the answer to all their "somethings" is time...time for more research to be done, time for human knowledge to grow. They could have used as their "something" the flu virus 80 years ago -- but not now, since human knowledge about it has grown considerably. They recently used the human eye...guess what? The evolution of the human eye has now been firmly established, no designer in sight (pun intended). Small wonder those who champion ID are known as "IDiots" :)
6. Intelligent design is a bag of crap from a scientific persepective-human beings actually have serious flaws in their DNA that hinder their chances for survival for example they can't synthesise vitamin c unlike almost every other species showing that if they were designed it wasn't intelligently.
7. Yes. All a free market means is that whoever controls a market is free to loot, cheat, and brainwash all he wants. The only market force is force itself. We live under a planned economy, planned by Wall Street parasites and other economic bullies. Intelligent Design does not mean divine design. Each individual living thing has its own intelligence. In the beginning, this intelligence picked which random events it would take advantage of. So there are billions and billions of gods. As for Who created them, theists have no right to declare a monopoly on self-creation or that the Prime Mover must be singular. If they ask you that, ask back, "Who created God?" The Neo-Platonist Plotinus had a God's god that could not sully himself with coming in contact with matter, so the One had to create a God to deal with this unheavenly universe.