RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 10, 2021 at 7:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2021 at 7:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 10, 2021 at 4:52 am)Belacqua Wrote: The universe is a certain way.
I would have designed it differently.
Therefore it wasn't designed.
I think that's a bad argument.
No more or less so than it's positive corollary.
The universe is a certain way
I would have designed it this way
Therefore it was designed.
We're either entertaining it, or we aren't. If we are entertaining it as we are being asked to do, then ofc we can make equivalent claims upon equal footing. If, however, we shouldn't be entertaining this sort of proposition at all because bad argument, ID is bankrupt from the start.
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