RE: Why make stupid unsustainable arguments?
December 11, 2015 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 7:34 pm by SteveII.)
(December 11, 2015 at 7:04 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(December 10, 2015 at 9:47 am)SteveII Wrote: It is absurd to say my worldview cannot allow for naturally occurring complexity. If science proves something, it must be accepted. It is the naturalistic worldview that is extremely limiting.
How is the following an argument from ignorance?
Premise One: Despite a thorough search, no material causes have been discovered that demonstrate the power to produce large amounts of specified information, irreducible and interdependent biological systems.
Premise Two: Intelligent causes have demonstrated the power to produce large amounts of specified information, irreducible and interdependent systems of all sorts.
Conclusion: Intelligent design constitutes the best, most causally adequate, explanation for the information and irreducible complexity in the cell, and interdependence of proteins, ...
[i'm lazy. cut and pasted from the first website I found that listed it this way (I have no idea about the site itself). ]
No, it doesn't, because Premise One is where the ignorance comes in.
We're dealing with an embarrassingly small sample size. Namely, one known planet that contains life in a universe with potentially many billions/trillions/numbers I don't even know the word to describe planets and moons that may harbor life. A thorough search simply hasn't actually happened for all reasonable definitions of the word 'thorough', therefore the first premise is faulty.
Science says "We don't know." To infer anything beyond that is wish casting.
First, your appeal that some other possible world might provide answers do nothing to defeat the truth of the premise. Second, what does sample size have to do with anything? Life on one planet isn't enough to draw conclusions from? Are we to subject every scientific inquiry to "well, if we had more data from other worlds...?"
If science says "we don't know" does not mean we can't draw conclusions from the lack of evidence and/or theory.