RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2021 at 5:01 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
The teleological argument doesn’t seem so much an argument as it does an expression of confirmation bias. Thusly:
-I believe in a god.
-The god in which I believe designed the universe.
-Since this god designed the universe, evidence of design should be observable.
-Everything I see exhibits design.
-This design is clearly the work of the god in which I believe.
-Therefore, the god in which I believe exists.
The only irrefutable clause in the above it the first one. Everything else is supposition, unsupported assertions, wishful thinking, and dizzyingly circular logic. I think even Voltaire was much too forgiving when he said that the most the TA could ‘prove’ was an Architect, not a god.
Boru
-I believe in a god.
-The god in which I believe designed the universe.
-Since this god designed the universe, evidence of design should be observable.
-Everything I see exhibits design.
-This design is clearly the work of the god in which I believe.
-Therefore, the god in which I believe exists.
The only irrefutable clause in the above it the first one. Everything else is supposition, unsupported assertions, wishful thinking, and dizzyingly circular logic. I think even Voltaire was much too forgiving when he said that the most the TA could ‘prove’ was an Architect, not a god.
Boru
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