RE: Argument from Conscience
August 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2015 at 2:54 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(August 11, 2015 at 11:49 am)lkingpinl Wrote: I look at an intelligible world and have to logically deduce intelligence behind it. I cannot fathom that this immensely complex universe is pure blind luck, it goes against reason. It's like someone showing me a dictionary with all of the words in correct order with all of their definitions and then saying it came to be out of an explosion in a printing press by pure luck and chance and that it is precisely what we expect to happen based on the properties we see of this printing press. To me that is illogical.
It is illogical because it didn't happen that way. A ball on top of a mountain may roll down into one valley, or another valley, but it will still roll down regardless of randomness.
Science has explained to a greater or lesser degree how complexity has developed since the Big Bang when there was only radiation. Your dictionary analogy is not appropriate, unless your dictionary started with 26 letters which then assembled into more complicated words over time, with some letters and words being more attracted to each other than others. All the while an influx of energy then blows words and sentences apart in a dynamic way.
This process has been demonstrated in principle and in practice in many different ways independently in many different scientific fields.