RE: Is "discourse of the mind" evidence of design?
July 13, 2014 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2014 at 5:24 pm by Mudhammam.)
(July 13, 2014 at 4:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why you, via Hobbes, seem to be advocating is really no different that typical creationist rhetoric which boils down to, 'I cannot understand this, therefore God is responsible for it.'
Boru
I suppose it might be more apt to say that simple basic mechanisms can result in configurations that appear designed. Is that an arbitrary assertion put forth by human brains or does some genuinely designed function--the struggle for survival, say--play a role? And could that be reducible at some point in the past into something like a dumb, unintelligent, single rule? That does seems plausible in other areas, such as the breakdown of complex organisms into lesser (but still) complex individual cells and then atoms and so forth, so I suppose that runs counter to my point on design, and is even likely typically recognized as so.
Perhaps Hobbes would extend something like that to mean a Divine being, and the OP was phrased along the lines of standard design arguments, but I tend to think design, or the appearance of in nature, can be discussed irrespective of a personal or incorporeal designer.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza