RE: What would you say?
March 13, 2010 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2010 at 5:28 pm by Welsh cake.)
Simple. The Muslim's take on a teleological argument does not prove the existence of their God as it relies on 'perceived evidence' of order, purpose, design, or direction.
It seeks to assign a subjectively true "purpose" onto the world while blissfully ignorant of the fact that complexity does not always entail intelligent design. It also does not appreciate the complexity of reality and examples of systems in it that are random occurrences or 'ordered' simply because of natural ongoing physical processes.
Actually, I'm disappointed the Muslim's argument about boats is nothing more than a revised watchmaker analogy, since its easily refutable.
It seeks to assign a subjectively true "purpose" onto the world while blissfully ignorant of the fact that complexity does not always entail intelligent design. It also does not appreciate the complexity of reality and examples of systems in it that are random occurrences or 'ordered' simply because of natural ongoing physical processes.
Actually, I'm disappointed the Muslim's argument about boats is nothing more than a revised watchmaker analogy, since its easily refutable.
