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The absurd need for logical proofs for God
RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God
(December 28, 2020 at 11:44 am)Klorophyll Wrote: And because these things display appearances of complexity, design, etc, this makes it more probable than not that the agent in question is intelligent,

It doesn't mean that if something is complex that it is inteligently designed.

(December 28, 2020 at 11:44 am)Klorophyll Wrote: What we usually consider to be cleverly designed machines is a combination of matter that doesn't belong to us in a way that is useful to a set of people, in other words, assigning design to something is actually a subjective issue

No, it is actually very objective. If we see in nature some "cleverly designed machine" like a clock, we know that it is man-made because 1st we know that humans make them, and 2nd it’s because nobody ever observed a clock giving birth to the baby clock, and nobody so far observed in nature fossils of “primitive” clocks upon which today’s clocks evolved. So that’s the main difference of how we know that biological beings evolved and machines were made by man.

(December 28, 2020 at 11:44 am)Klorophyll Wrote: it's not difficult to see that there is no intrinsic property of design that we can assign to objects around us.

It doesn’t mean that if there is no intelligent designer that there is no "designer" because nature, from rocks to animals and humans, is designed by natural processes. That’s why rocks/ cliffs look one way in the desert, and the other way under the sea—because they follow the pattern of natural processes that can even be predicted, like when people design alien planets for SF movies.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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The absurd need for logical proofs for God - by R00tKiT - November 22, 2020 at 2:04 pm
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RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God - by R00tKiT - November 29, 2020 at 4:54 pm
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RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God - by Angrboda - December 30, 2020 at 6:48 pm
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