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Has Science done away with a need for God?
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RE: Has Science done away with a need for God?
(July 27, 2015 at 12:57 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: What I am showing is that we see something with complexity, function and purpose and we immediately assume a mind behind it.  Do you not look at something as simple as a letter and assume someone with a mind produced it?  

How did you determine that the universe has function and purpose?

You do know that computers can write letters, yes? Do computers have minds?

Quote:I find it fascinating how we can take something simple as the internal combustion engine and assume there was a mind behind it, but see something infinitely more complex as the universe and say its pure chance with no need for an intelligence behind it?  I don't find that logic very convincing.

Complexity is not a hallmark of design. Simplicity is; a designer would want to make his machine work with the fewest moving parts, less add ons to increase the cost, less potentially breakable bits. That's why modern computers shrink rather than growing larger and more complicated than the first ones.

And again, you're making a circular argument: How do you know the universe was designed? Because it's complex. How do you know that complex things are designed? Because complexity denotes design. So, the universe is designed because it's complex, and complex things are designed because complexity denotes design and the universe is complex therefore it's designed...

You're just looking at properties that the universe possesses and then arbitrarily demanding that we take those properties as evidence of design.
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Messages In This Thread
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 27, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Lek - July 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Esquilax - July 27, 2015 at 1:09 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 10:20 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 11:36 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by IATIA - August 1, 2015 at 9:46 am

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