RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 30, 2014 at 6:30 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 6:31 am by Whateverist.)
(May 29, 2014 at 3:46 pm)Heywood Wrote: I don't think it is unreasonable to look for objective ways to differentiate designed things from those which are undesigned.
How would you be able to falsify a proposed criteria which indicated something had been designed?
How could you ever know whether the functionality of a physical object, process or being is a quality stamped on it by an external agent rather than the outward expression of the intrinsic properties of the basic stuff of which it consists?
You can't.
You see this as an opportunity to insert a god. But it will always seem odd to do so to those who aren't looking for such an opportunity.
Where does the notion of a 'designer' come from? Obviously it is ourselves who are designers of man-made things. Birds make nests. Beavers build dams. Yada, yada. So the only ready-to-hand examples of designers we can come up with are living creatures. Why in the world would we ask who designed the designers? If even designers need designers then even your god needs a designer. You can't just define away the need for your god's designer by designating Him as the 'first cause'. The infinite regress isn't solved that way. It is solved by realizing that the search for designers of designers is a fool's mission.
