(November 17, 2018 at 1:34 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 17, 2018 at 1:13 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The Do You Live In An Intelligently Designed Universe Quiz
1) Why do things fall to the ground?
- A: Gravity
- B: Divine Will
2) Why does the sun shine?
- A: Nuclear fusion and black body radiation
- B: Divine Will
3) What makes your laptop work?
- A: Complicated electrical egineering, semiconductors, fiber optics, and a bunch of other stuff that I understand only poorly.
- B: Divine Will
4) What makes lightning?
- A: Electrostatic discharge during violent storms
- B: Divine Will
5) What directs the behaviour of your cells?
- A: DNA
- B: Divine Will
6) Why do fewer socks come out of the drier than went in?
- A: Drier Tax/Laundry gnomes/Pants eat them
- B: Divine Will
If you answered B to all of the above then you most likely exist in a Created World. You exist at the whim of a capricious Creator and could be snuffed out at any instant. Even a pebble rolling down a riverbed has more free will than you. My condolences.
If you answered A to all of the above then you most likely exist in a universe that evolved from natural laws. Competent Deities don't need to muck about with natural laws because they have Divine Will. The existence of natural laws in your world militates against the existence of a Creator.
Gods don't need to muck about with DNA, they just tell your cells what to do. Assuming you even have cells. DNA demonstrate that you are evolved biochemistry with delusions of sentience.
Everena: False. The A answers are just explanations that science has discovered about how higher intelligence is doing all this.
Except science hasn't discovered any higher intelligence and none of those answers make sense if you infer one.
Take the sun for example. It's a nuclear fusion reaction dynamically balanced on by its own gravitational attraction. It terrifyingly radioactive, dangerously unstable, and doomed to explode and kill us all sooner or later. Is this truly the mechanism that a competent Creator uses to illuminate the pinnacle of its creation?