(February 18, 2014 at 9:08 am)Esquilax Wrote: We don't recognize design via complexity, genius. We recognize design via contrast with the natural. Complex things do occur in nature, you know; you don't just magically intuit design into complex things, that's begging the question right from the outset by inserting your conclusion "there's a designer," into your premise "complex things denote designers."
On top of that, Hume showed that the fine tuning argument also fails because there is no basis for comparison. There is no other universe to contrast it with to determine what does and doesn't constitute fine-tuning.
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
