RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 31, 2014 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2014 at 1:19 am by Heywood.)
(May 30, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 1) The reason I keep asking for citations is because your arguments depend on making claims that cannot be verified without them. If you actually had the evidential support, it ought to be trivial to do. And it's not an unreasonable request - if you think it is, you seriously need to re-evaluate what you're trying to sell and why you find it convincing.
These are the elements of my argument. You tell me which ones are wrong, or you disagree with and why, or you feel needs to be substantiated further and why.
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.
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.
D) Many lineages of life will soon come into existence which will be known to be the product of intelligent design.
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.
