RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 12, 2021 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2021 at 12:25 pm by Angrboda.)
This reminds me of Drich's perennial complaint that God may have accomplished something through natural means, that doesn't mean God is not responsible. True enough, but if nature is all that is required, then God becomes superfluous and that thing ceases to be evidence for God. You want to shore up the idea that things are designed while doing jack shit in terms of providing evidence that things were designed, knock yourself out. Just as a side question, what would something that is not designable look like? If you can't specify an observation that would show the hypothesis false, then you don't have a falsifiable proposition, but just a vague idea. That's not how falsification works. Additionally, even if designability is one way to falsify design, it's likely not the only way, so even if you can show that designability has withstood falsification you haven't shown that the design hypothesis in general resists falsification.
Anyway, the long and short of it, to my mind, is that design lies in the designer, not the designed. If we had no information about human behavior, we'd have no clue about the origin of Clovis points.
Anyway, I'm too lazy to actually make a substantive argument in that vein, so just consider it food for thought.
Anyway, the long and short of it, to my mind, is that design lies in the designer, not the designed. If we had no information about human behavior, we'd have no clue about the origin of Clovis points.
Anyway, I'm too lazy to actually make a substantive argument in that vein, so just consider it food for thought.
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