(May 31, 2014 at 10:33 am)Bad Wolf Wrote:(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'
No, what you singled out are not arguments but rather elements of arguments. Further the entire argument is not one from ignorance. An argument from ignorance would be, "We don't know....therefore God". This argument goes like this, "Life looks like something intelligently designed, so that gives us good reason to claim that it is intelligently designed". There is no "We don't know" in this argument.
(May 31, 2014 at 10:33 am)Bad Wolf Wrote:(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'
The argument doesn't prove our lineage was intelligently designed. It is merely a rationale for categorizing it as such.
