(May 16, 2010 at 4:09 am)tackattack Wrote: 5)That a creator scenario seems more logical than one without.A creator who created everything is more comforting yes, but it is logical?
If it is illogical to presuppose the universe did not require intelligent design then who or what created this creator then? Not to mention stating "God did it" doesn't say anything about its nature. There's no explanation for its characteristics, behaviour or attributes or even what kind of intelligent designer we are supposedly dealing with. One would be no less justified than saying the reality we perceive is not real but actually an intrinsically complex dream of a gigantic alien life-form with a mind unfathomably superior to ours, and when it eventually wakes up we cease to exist or return back into its subconscious. I don't find a cosmic creator belief that begs more questions than answers to be particularly comforting.
The creator scenario also does a poor job of explaining how complex patterns can emerge naturally in the universe free of any intelligent manipulation or influence.
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