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Argument against Intelligent Design
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RE: Argument against Intelligent Design
The key assumption in all these design arguments is that human design and intelligence is not itself the result of natural causes, i.e. a deterministic brain. If you analogize anything to human mental ability, and human mental ability is a natural phenomena, then by analogy, the creator that you analogize is responsible for biological design is also a natural phenomena. God is not a natural, mechanistic phenomena and so, if mind is mechanistic, the cause of biological design is not God.

The fact of the matter is that we don't know whether human mind is a natural, mechanistic phenomena or not. So the best that this design argument can conclude is that biological design may or may not be the result of a natural, mechanistic process. And so the argument accomplishes nothing, as we knew this to be the case going in.

But your focus on the meaning and validity of the concept of specified complexity has its own utility.
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Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 6, 2019 at 7:48 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 6, 2019 at 8:35 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 12:45 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 2:47 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 6:33 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by brewer - May 6, 2019 at 9:44 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by chimp3 - May 7, 2019 at 8:26 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by brewer - May 7, 2019 at 8:36 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Brian37 - May 7, 2019 at 11:08 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 11:16 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Angrboda - May 7, 2019 at 2:05 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 2:12 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Jrouche - May 7, 2019 at 2:52 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Amarok - May 8, 2019 at 6:27 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Amarok - May 9, 2019 at 7:41 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by snowtracks - June 1, 2019 at 10:19 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Nay_Sayer - June 1, 2019 at 10:44 pm
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by Amarok - June 2, 2019 at 2:57 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by LostLocke - June 2, 2019 at 10:44 am
RE: Argument against Intelligent Design - by madog - June 2, 2019 at 12:51 pm

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