RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
February 4, 2015 at 6:48 am
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2015 at 6:49 am by bennyboy.)
(February 4, 2015 at 5:47 am)Heywood Wrote: If I have only ever observed white grains of sand in existence, I have no reason whatsoever to believe that the one under the napkin is a color other than white.It works even better if YOU are the one who piled on all the white grains, and you refuse to consider allowing any grains on the table that you didn't personally put there as evidence, hey?
If you are going to do this, then you haven't gone far enough-- probably because it would be silly. Here's Heywood v. 2.0: "Since any system which meets criteria X counts as an evolutionary system, and since humans can arbitrarily make such systems, then the number of evolutionary systems which could hypothetically be made by humans is infinite."
Forget "probably" or "likely" or "most likely." Just say, "Fuck yeah! Intellectual 'implementation' is guaranteed. Can't argue with infinity, bitches!"
Except that after all that, there's still no evidence of any intellect other than ours, and no reason to think that ANY system, evoutionary or otherwise, was created by one.
