(June 18, 2013 at 4:31 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Source can't be denied of somethings its copies have. Consciousness must have Super Consciousness as its source not dead matter, selfassembled chemicals break the rule of cause and effect.But now you're back to the infinite regression. You're claiming that something as complex as Item A must have a designer, because it cannot have come about on its own... unless it's Item A1, which is so much more complex than Item A that we cannot even begin to comprehend it, yet did not require a designer. That isn't logical. It requires a special exemption based on your need for there to be an exemption.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
