RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 12, 2021 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2021 at 2:01 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 12, 2021 at 1:14 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's not valid to make up a quality of 'undesignability' just to be able to make a coherent sentence that something with that quality would falsify design.
I disagree; science is the art of carving nature at her joints. We not only make up qualities all the time (e.g. Gender, Episodic Memory, Consciousness) as an attempt to describe something about the universe, we also come up with operational definitions to make abstract qualities measurable (e.g. Fear means heart rate above 130 bpm).
I've borrowed the "something-ability" concept from a popular theory in psychology about affordances and direct perception. And I've exemplified why "not designable" is a valid proposition, namely, because we frame things as "not-something-else" all the time. There is nothing in what I've said that is in anyway incoherent, uncommon, or unfalsifiable.