RE: Aquinas's Fifth Way
November 28, 2014 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 11:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Is it taken as a given or is it an observation? You seem to think that it's an observation when you make an argument for god...but call it a given when science is concerned? What's up with that? I'm afraid that you're still being far too ambiguous in your questions for any answer to be attempted (and certainly too ambiguous for any answer to be satisfying). Point to a specific cause that produces a consistent result and perhaps someone could explain why that is, to you, and why it could not be otherwise?
Do plants possess intelligence? If we concede that they have within them the power to change (and I doubt that we could call that effect anything -but- consistent) and yet do not grant them intelligence the rest is just destroyed - all in one stroke. If we grant them intelligence to salvage the argument, then whatever intelligence may be required to direct things, code for god - seems very...very marginal.
Do plants possess intelligence? If we concede that they have within them the power to change (and I doubt that we could call that effect anything -but- consistent) and yet do not grant them intelligence the rest is just destroyed - all in one stroke. If we grant them intelligence to salvage the argument, then whatever intelligence may be required to direct things, code for god - seems very...very marginal.
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