RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 22, 2015 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 9:15 pm by Heywood.)
(January 22, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(January 22, 2015 at 8:37 pm)Heywood Wrote: Its a pretty simple logical extension at work here:
- we know intellects can implement evolutionary systems
- we have not found any evidence of evolutionary systems being implemented without intellects.
- it therefore seems likely that the evolutionary system which created us was implemented by an intellect.
Argument from ignorance.
Just because you are unable to think of how it could have occurred via natural mechanisms, or even if we don't currently have a definitive explanation of how it could have, doesn't mean that "an intellect (god) did it" becomes the next best explanation by default.
You are making a claim that requires its own evidence. Your analogy just feeds into your existing fallacious thinking.
Not an argument from ignorance but rather an argument from observations of reality. Again there are two propositions of which only one can be true:
Proposition 1: All evolutionary systems require intellect to be implemented.
Proposition 2: Not all evolutionary systems require intellect to be implemented.
All our observations support proposition 1. No observations support proposition 2. Some have tried to present observations which support proposition 2, but under scrutiny...they fail.
Your counter argument is an atheism of the gaps argument. You're basically claiming that nature is mysterious and the fact that we don't have any observations supporting proposition 2 only means we haven't discovered them yet.
Do you believe the fundamentalist too when he tells you that the bible is the word of God and the proof is coming soon? You don't and I don't believe your gap explanation is better than my observations.
