RE: Becoming an angry atheist
December 9, 2014 at 9:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2014 at 9:14 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(December 9, 2014 at 4:49 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: ...you are assuming that there is intelligence behind natural order because what order we see created here on Earth is the product of human intelligence ... hence, anthropic fallacy.
Your critique assumes that something other than intelligence is ultimately responsible for natural order. Formal and final causes are just as involved in the creation of galaxies as everything else.
(December 9, 2014 at 4:49 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: .Now, if you want to argue that the laws of physics themselves require an intelligence in order to operate, then I'd like to see your proposed mechanism for an immaterial being to affect material existence.And here I'm the one accused of begging the question! You ask for a mechanism because you already assume a mechanistic universe devoid of formal and final causes.
