RE: Help refuting an Intelligent Design Argument
May 5, 2019 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2019 at 11:11 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(May 5, 2019 at 10:57 pm)Jrouche Wrote:(May 5, 2019 at 10:50 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: IDK if I have time to help you draft an argument, but you can bounce ideas of me. What's this 3 pronged argument?Thanks for helping. 1) Intelligence is known to cause effects exhibiting information rich and specified complexity.
2) The universe and life are effects that exhibit information rich in specified complexity.
3) Therefore, intelligence is a possible cause for the universe and life.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
John
Hmmmm. Not exactly sure what is meant by "specified complexity." I'll have to look it up. But right off the bat I can tell you that the conclusion of the argument is weak. It doesn't say very much at all. Sure, intelligence is "a possible cause for the universe and life"... but so what? Does that mean it's likely?
I mean, alien spacecraft are a "possible cause" for flashing lights in the sky. But so are airplanes and meteorites.
It doesn't matter if intelligence is a possible cause for life and the universe, what matters is if there is a good reason to think so. And there isn't.
I'll get back to you after I look up specified complexity...
