(July 22, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Blackout Wrote: Dear alexwenzel, I've only picked up the discussion now and I haven't read the whole content of the arguments. You seem to be talking about odds to prove your belief correct, I'm assuming you are a creationist since you're here questioning the probability scientific theories have of explaining our whole existence and where do we come from. I must however ask you the following (and be happy I'm in a good mood today) - Even if the odds for evolution/the big bang were minimal to result in our current living conditions and the earth's existence, can you really compare them with the probability of an invisible supernatural being, full of contradictory characteristics and lacking any evidence to assert it's necessity existing? You seem to be the one going against probabilities
In order to recognized that an explanation is the best, you don't have to have an explanation of the explanation. That's an elementary point in the philosophy of science. Suppose of astronauts were to find on the back side of the moon a pile of machinery there, that had not been left by american or Russian cosmonauts, what would be the best explanation for that machinery? Clearly would be some sort of exterrestrial intelligence that left the machinery there, and you don't have to have an explanation of who these exterrestrials were, or came from, or how they got there, or anything of that sort to recognize that the best explanation of these machinery is intelligent design. In order to recognized that an explanation is the best, you don't have to have an explanation of the explanation.