(December 24, 2010 at 2:10 pm)GANIMEDE Wrote: The problem with the "Intellegent Design" argument as employed by Fundamentalist Doomsday Christians is the fact that they attribute the source of all intellegence to their prive Diety. Neither does the Human Race, nor some fantastic diety imagined by them, have the monoply on intellegence!
Intellegence in universal. It can be observed in every creature and is not limited to those who claim they have "souls". All living things have intellegence and dignity and Evolution is quite naturally driven by that universal intellegence. INTELLEGENT DESIGN DOES EXIST IN NATURE, but this fact does not give Christianity nor any other fantastic religion validity: Intellegence in Universal.
The Universe was neither created by a "Big Bang" nor a "Big Watchmaker". The UNIVERSE has always existed and does not require a "Prime Mover". If it did, then the next logical question must be: WHO CREATED GOD? (Ofcourse we Atheists all know the answer to that one).
What right does the Christian Creationist God have to being exempt from "The Creation Process" ?
FACT: The Universally Intellegent Universe needs no "Bearded Human Kraftsman" to justify it. . . . In fact, we do the Universe, and ourselves, an injustice by proscribing it to an obscure, confused, lonely, vengefull, disfunctional, "Clock-Maker-Sheppard" who has abandond his flock. "Conservative" is just annother word meaning "Sheep".
I link to the stonemakers argument
Stonemaker argument I
Quote:If we can assert a magic monkey could exist eternally and then one day design something, then we can equally assert that the universe itself existed eternally and then one day began expanding, or been in an endless loop of expansion and contraction, or thousands of other examples.