(December 14, 2015 at 1:33 pm)SteveII Wrote: When I posted this in another thread, I got answers that ranged from a GIF laughing over and over, a suggestion that we need to look at the certain to be life on other planets and that this was simply a God of the Gaps argument. Can it really be dismissed so easily?
Premise One: Despite a thorough search, no material causes have been discovered that demonstrate the power to produce large amounts of specified information, irreducible and interdependent biological systems.
Premise Two: Intelligent causes have demonstrated the power to produce large amounts of specified information, irreducible and interdependent systems of all sorts.
Conclusion: Intelligent design constitutes the best, most causally adequate, explanation for the information and irreducible complexity in the cell, and interdependence of proteins, ...
Primo: you fail at biology.
Segundo: the fact that we don't have an explanation for something, does not lead to your conclusion.
Tertio: you forget that science works from available evidence. Science can't say anything when an hypothesis has no evidence to back it up.
You are grasping at straws, trying to keep your personal beliefs true, at the cost of your own honesty.
