(September 11, 2014 at 12:59 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 12:40 pm)Tonus Wrote: I'm typing this message on a computer whose design and workings are made possible regardless of the amount of understanding I have of the related industries. The chair I am sitting in, the desk I'm sitting in front of, the electricity that powers my home, the car I use to get around, the plane I fly in to get to faraway destinations, the medical care and medication that I use to get and feel better... all of those show the "truth" of any particular science. I could go on for quite a while, mentioning dozens --nay, hundreds-- of things that we all take for granted because they work regardless of how much we know about the underlying science.
How reliable and repeatable are claims based on religious faith? A ball-point pen will write just as well for a Christian as for a Muslim, and they both rely on science every day with such a fundamental level of faith that they don't even think about it. But ask them any faith-based question and lets see how well their answers align.
I challenge that we could pile all of those computer parts on the floor (matter) and nothing interesting would happen. However, putting the pieces together in a particular order and loading a program that gives it rules to go by, allows it to do amazing things. How is this not relevant to our existence? How is this not relevant to intelligent design?
Oh god..not the junkyard 747 argument..
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson