RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 2, 2015 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 5:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 2, 2015 at 4:06 pm)Heywood Wrote: We use experience to detect design. When the New Horizon probe flies by Pluto if it images machinery on the surface of the dwarf planet we will conclude that machinery was designed because in our experience machinery is always the product of design. Now suppose the probe images something completely novel to us. We'd have no way of knowing if that thing is designed or not.You're soooo close.
Quote:I see the hand of God in nature. Every evolutionary system I have observed, whose origins are known to me, requires the existence of intelligence.lol......
Quote: Therefore I find it reasonable to conclude that the evolutionary system which produced me also required the existence of intelligence.Might have something to do with going full retard above. Sorry, I can't trust your "therefore".
(it's unsurprising, btw, to see that you've concluded precisely what you've assumed)
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