RE: Order vs. Randomness
February 20, 2014 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2014 at 4:26 pm by Angrboda.)
I wasn't implying that your idea was in conflict with Kolmogorov-Chaitin. Your idea doesn't fit within the bounds of Kolmogorov-Chaitin's concept, thus it is original. Thus you need to support it with something, and saying that it's based on a subjective criterion doesn't make it any more coherent as an empirical concept, and likely less so. If your whole point is that, subjectively, the elegance of order arising from simplicity is great enough to warrant an inference to design, then that's not an empirical argument, but another argument from incredulity. My background is in mathematics, so while I appreciate the notion of elegance, I view that as more a property existing in a strange and disordered pattern throughout mathematical space. You're concentrating on one small area of that mathematical space and saying that the beauty you find in that space tells you something remarkable about that space; I look at all of mathematics, and, subjectively, tell you that it isn't remarkable that you can find pockets in all of math space with that combination of qualities. It's like arguments about numerology and the Koran, you're using finding a pattern after the fact as evidence of something special occurring during or before composition. That's just the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy: you've found a cluster of traits that look "special" and you've drawn a bullseye around them. It's simply not evidence of anything.
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