(May 20, 2016 at 8:55 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Let me try to be a bit more kind about it, and explain why I used the example of snowflakes.
They do have the appearance of design, since each is unique and intricately crafted in beautiful patterns. If I did not know Atomic Theory, or even what an electron was (let alone what a covalent bond was, or that the oxygen "bent" the hydrogens because of two pairs of free non-bonding electrons) I might say that the snowflakes had to have a designer. We don't say anything like that, now, because we have discovered the mechanism for creating snowflakes.
What you are essentially doing, here, is looking at snowflakes under a (newly-invented) microscope in the year 1590, and saying "Look how complicated and amazing these snowflakes are!... Clearly, and intelligent Someone designed them individually!"
So with the discovery that snowflakes aren't the result of intelligence, we have officially eliminated intelligence as an explanation for EVERY single phenomena? I appreciate that you say you intended to be kind about it, but this statement actually offended me more than usual, essentially implying that I'm gullible and intellectually childish. I know that you guys are very proud to be the ones who aren't being fooled by nature like us ignorant Christians.