(March 21, 2016 at 1:24 am)Cecelia Wrote: Actually the complexity of the human eye is a good argument against design. Why would a designer make something more complicated than necessary? The only reason a designer would make something so complicated is because they have limitations. This goes against the Christian God who is said to have made man from Dirt. That's magic. It doesn't state that he created the human eye with intricate precision. It doesn't say that he had limitations. Yet if there were a designer, they would have to have limitations in order to have done things the way they did.
The argument from complexity doesn't work when your God doesn't have limitations. A designed eye from a creator without limitations, who could make man out of dirt and woman from rib would not have such limitations. He would have created the very laws he's working with.
Then you have to consider: The Bible states we were made in his image. If he looks like us, and we appear designed, then he too must appear designed. So who designed him? If he wasn't designed, why is his eye less complex than ours? Was he restricted by laws he didn't create? Or does his eyes work the same as ours, and thus give an appearance of design?
From my reading of the Hebrew Bible as well as excellent Jewish commentary I am inclined to think that in some older portions of the Torah God is actually a physical being with a body at the head of a council of gods. Thus humans were made "in our image."
