(January 15, 2016 at 1:29 am)AAA Wrote:(January 15, 2016 at 1:13 am)KevinM1 Wrote: What are you comparing it to to determine that 'it works like a designed system'? Do you have any applicable counterexamples of undesigned/emergent systems?
We compare it to things with known causes. For example, we know computer systems to have a designer. We know coal/diamonds/sand etc. to not be designed. We then compare the qualities of life (such as a DNA code, RNA, Proteins, and their ability to interact in specific ways to accomplish a goal) to the qualities of the things to which the cause is known. The fact is that only known cause things that resemble these features is an intelligent causal agent. Therefore, based on the method of historical science outlined by Newton, and later by Darwin, we can infer design. Now there may be some other explanation, but the theories for abiogenesis all have serious problems, and evolution also has problems.
Yes, you can infer design; but you already admitted that that's where you draw your conclusion.
And again, saying "but evolution also has problems" adds nothing to your own position.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
