RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 31, 2014 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2014 at 11:13 am by Bad Wolf.)
(May 31, 2014 at 1:18 am)Heywood Wrote: A) We differentiate designed from not designed by experience. If in our experience a kind of thing is always the result of intelligent design and never the result of natural processes, we can categorize those kinds of things as being intelligently designed.
I wouldn't word it like that. We recognize design by comparing it with things we know are designed, this we made. And I don't think anyone calls this 'intelligent design', its just 'design'
(May 31, 2014 at 1:18 am)Heywood Wrote: B) We are not privy to the details of how our lineage of life came to be.
C) Lineages of life have never been observed to come into existence via natural processes.
Isn't that just an argument from ignorance? 'We don't know we weren't designed'
(May 31, 2014 at 1:18 am)Heywood Wrote: D) Many lineages of life will soon come into existence which will be known to be the product of intelligent design.
No, it will be known as the product of science. They will never use the term 'intelligent design' because of all the creationist bullshit that comes with it.
(May 31, 2014 at 1:18 am)Heywood Wrote: Now unless some new development happens, like we observe a new lineage of life emerge from natural processes, in the near future theists will be able to claim that our lineage of life is the product of intelligent design, because in our experience lineages of life only come into being via intelligent design.
They would be wrong to claim that. Just because we humans created life, it does not just follow that we were intelligently designed. They would have no evidence for this claim other than 'its possible for humans to make life'
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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