Re: Intelligent Design...
America has given the world so much in science and technology that this statement does not seem correct to me.
I don't agree with your above statement. Until the beginning of 20th century, there was hardly any American contribution to science and technology. The only American scientist of some stature in the last 200 years (18th and 19th century) was Benjamin Franklin. All the scientific, mathematical and technology development happened in western Europe (It is unfortunate that two world wars distroyed all the development in western Europe and gave advantage to Americans). Americans benefitted immensely from the fundamental scientific research in western Europe in the past (like Japanese, Koreans and Taiwanese are benefitting today without contributing much to fundamental scientific development). It is mostly the brain drain from Europe and elsewhere which helped Americans. Whenever I went to America, I was horrified to read the daily news papers with such a substandard editorials and news. Average Americans don't know much about outside world. Local Indian newspapers maintain far higher quality than their American counterparts.
America can be compared to a super rich man with little intellectual capacity, hiring top experts from everywhere. Just imagine, govt of India spends huge amount of money to train the best brains in the country in Indian Institute of Technology. And then what happens. More than 90% of them fly to America and Americans freely get the best brains without spending a penny. This brain drain is not just the Indian problem. It's true for Britain (Brain drain was first coined when lot of top british brains started living for America during the last century) and many other countries.
and therefore, this shows that there is more to it than we can currently theorize. Thus, we should not take the evolution theory to be true/absolute.