RE: Challenging the Atheist belief
December 6, 2013 at 5:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2013 at 5:07 pm by Faith No More.)
(December 6, 2013 at 4:57 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: Wait, wait, wait.. You recognize human design, but.... You don't believe in a God or creator. So how is that incorrect?
Because in your metaphor you fail to take in the criteria for rejecting the intelligent design claim. If I find a sharpie, I will compare it to all of the natural things around to me to determine whether it had been designed. I'd look at nature to understand what characteristics come about naturally and what has to have been done purposely by an intelligence.
That is the problem with claiming intelligent design of the universe. There is nothing to compare it to. You have no base standard to determine the qualities of what is designed by intelligence and what isn't. For all we know, what you perceive as having the hallmarks of design may, in fact, just be the nature of existence, and until you have some sort of standard to compare it to, claiming intelligent design is unfounded.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
