Don Barone Wrote:
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> The falacy of the excluded middle ?
>
> Theistic evolution is Intelligent Design and a cop
> out ... Easier just to snap "It's" (god) finger
>
> Choices are but two ...
>
> The universe happened due to random circumstance
> or something caused it to be formed.
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> This something can be called "god".

Not necessarily. The "something" that caused it to be formed might be something other than God(s), other than an intelligence, other than a deliberate act of creation. Are there other universes? If so, are there natural laws that control the process of their creation that we don't understand? Is fate or destiny involved and is/are God(s) subject to that or do they control it? (That last was a question debated by the early Christians and the Greco-Roman astrologers. ) Bottom line, I can see more than two choices.

> 84% of the world profess to beleive in some sort
> of 'god'
>
> Thus 84% beleive the unvierse was not a random
> happening. Thus Intelligent Design seems to be the
> choice of the majority.

I think you are assuming that people who believe in some sort of god all believe the same things; obviously they do not. They don't even agree on the number of gods, let alone the nature of those gods. Not all religions have a supreme god who created the universe, either. Animist religions are less grandiose and so are many polytheistic ones. Many religions that have no supreme being. The AE had no theory of "Intelligent Design." Finally, there are monotheist believers who are also scientists who accept evolution as proven science and who also feel no need to reconcile that with any personal religious beliefs. IOW, they do not choose ID.