RE: Intelligent Design
January 14, 2016 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 3:38 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 14, 2016 at 3:24 pm)AAA Wrote: The God claims are based on the presence of qualities only known to be the product of a designing intelligence found in cells and the universe. We don't jump to God directly from this though. Just that they are best explained as the product of intelligence.
Only when your main arguments are argument from ignorance ("I can't figure out how these things could have come about via natural mechanisms, therefore it must have been my god") and argument from analogy ("this thing in the cell sure looks like a complex machine, therefore it must have been designed") does a magic being, that lives in a realm that can't be shown to exist, become the best explanation.
Complexity and function are not a sign of design.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
