(February 27, 2021 at 4:22 pm)Five Wrote:(February 27, 2021 at 4:04 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The reason we know watches are made by humans is because we know they are, and also because they don't have offsprings.
But I guess if some, how would I put it, uncivilized man found a watch on the beach maybe he would at first think it was some sort of an animal.
Yes! That's another angle of the same flaw. The analogy only works because of a comparison being made.
It is a false comparison in many ways because people would think that the watch was intelligently designed, and while they would be right in the watch case, people think that everything is intelligently designed (like rocks, sand, wind, etc.) unless they get an education to learn the difference.
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"
