(November 28, 2020 at 6:09 pm)SUNGULA Wrote:(November 28, 2020 at 5:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think it’s more fair to say that we have observations of designed things and observations of things which may or may not be designed.More like things he asserts are designed. The fact there are designed things does not demonstrate that all things are designed. Human machines are only accepted as designed because we observe the designer (US). I have no reason to believe outside of human constructs anything else is designed.
Boru
Like Paley (among others), he's using human-designed things as what he thinks are evidence for design in other things. Since we know that cars, watches, and electric tin openers are designed, he thinks he's justified in concluding that things like jellyfish, oranges and lawyers are designed.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson