RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 11, 2021 at 9:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2021 at 9:10 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 11, 2021 at 8:04 pm)Sandman Slim Wrote: Not going to support that claim, then? Mmm-kay. What is proposed without support can be just as easily dismissed. Thanks for playing.
You have asserted that the person making the assertion bears a burden of proof. But you have not provided proof for your assertion.
Please provide proof that the person making the assertion bears a burden. According to you, you have a burden to do this. So far you have proposed it without support, so we can dismiss it until you offer something.
Quote:He made a claim that all things are "designable." This is a positive claim (not a theory or even a proper hypotehesis) and needs to be supported to be taken seriously. If he's unwilling to support the claim, we're free to dismiss it with a similar effort.
It is true that some things are designable. He supported that. He did not argue that all things are designable. He said that one method to falsify intelligent design would be to show that there are things in nature which are not designable.
Please read more carefully.