RE: Why God doesn't stop satan?
June 11, 2021 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2021 at 3:46 pm by R00tKiT.)
(June 11, 2021 at 3:34 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: If everything is designed, then you have no basis to decide whether anything is is designed or not. You have nothing to compare it to.
Consider the "Blind Watchmaker" argument of Paley fame. If you were walking on a beach and stumbled upon a watch amidst all the sand, you would know the watch was a product of the work of an intelligent mind among all the sand dunes, right?
Why would we need to compare anything? If things within the universe exhibit great complexity, we have to look for a good explanation of this complexity. A personal designer is a more likely explanation than any other naturalistic one that relies on extremely improbable occurences that no sane individual should take seriously (the same way you don't expect your computer tu turn on itself and write meaningful emails and messages by mere chance) . And even if there is a good naturalistic theory that accounts for complexity, it needs itself an explanation, this regress must stop somewhere.
And Paley's line of thought is a simple analogy, NOT an argument. Contrasting a watch with sand only proves that the designer of the watch is not the same designer of sand, not that we came to this world by chance and explosions and whatnot