Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 31, 2014 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2014 at 3:48 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 31, 2014 at 2:40 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 31, 2014 at 10:33 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: 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.
Yes there is. It's the intellectual equivalent of OJ searching for "The Real Killers." It makes about as much sense as a lawyer in the middle of a murder trial going "Ok, yes, all of the physical evidence points toward my client conclusively; but why haven't the police investigated my client's claim there was second killer the police didn't bother to look for?"
You assume the existence of an intelligent designer based on religious convictions, and based on a complete misunderstanding, demand science search for evidence of that intelligent designer, without having a single piece of evidence to support the claim the designer exists at all.
"This stuff looks designed :. God"
"What stuff?"
"I dunno, all the stuff looks designed"
"You mean evolved over 4 billion years by trial and error?"
"No, I mean all the stuff looks like a person must have made it the way it is."
"Do you have any evidence for God, let alone that anything is designed?"
"Well, just look at it: it looks designed. Must have been God."
