RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 8, 2021 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2021 at 1:01 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 8, 2021 at 1:33 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: But you are arguing for intelligent design and no less by a perfect being, so if a design is not intelligent and is stupid in many ways, then it's not by the intelligent designer but by blind nature.
Intelligence here (or pretty much anywhere) doesn't mean smart. When we search for intelligent life out in the cosmos we are not searching for beings with an IQ of 140, we are searching for beings with specific cognitive abilities (learning, attention, perception, etc). Artificial intelligence also defines intelligence along these lines. By confusing intelligence with things like smart you get the kinds of objections you see on the thread: "If it looks stupid then it's not designed."
A bad design, an imperfect design, an evil design are all designs by admission. The existence of which is still a product of intelligence. The argument the forum should be making, is not that these are stupid, evil, or imperfect designs, but that they are not designs in the first place. (There are people who believe humans are the product of accelerated evolution engineered by alien life. This falls under intelligent design—it's not exclusive to gods.)
