RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 7, 2015 at 1:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 1:16 am by Jenny A.)
I could program a gravity and planetary motion simulator (actually I'm sure there are some simulators already). Then we'd have gravity simulators and the only ones which are not the universe would all be designed by intellect. Would that prove gravity and inertia is a designed system? Can you not see the problem with that?
Secondly, the designed systems you would like to compare natural evolution of organisms on earth to, are created for one and only one purpose, evolution simulation. They don't do anything else. In this purpose builtness, they show all the hallmarks of design. That's quite different from the universe as a whole which just happens to facilitate the process of evolution in this one tiny corner. Or to put it another way, show that the universe is a system for evolution at all.
Secondly, the designed systems you would like to compare natural evolution of organisms on earth to, are created for one and only one purpose, evolution simulation. They don't do anything else. In this purpose builtness, they show all the hallmarks of design. That's quite different from the universe as a whole which just happens to facilitate the process of evolution in this one tiny corner. Or to put it another way, show that the universe is a system for evolution at all.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.