RE: An infinite progress
September 2, 2021 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2021 at 9:10 am by Jehanne.)
(September 2, 2021 at 12:50 am)FortyTwo Wrote: I am a Christian.
That being said, I am also a human.
I have the same flaws as all the rest of you.
THAT being said . . . why? Why is your view of the universe, no, of the Cosmos correct?
The major objection you all seem to raise is the infinite regress. What about the infinite progress? If everything that is designed requires a designer more complex than itself, how does that not imply an infinitely and complex creator?
Most of the matter in the Cosmos is hydrogen. Astronomers who point their telescopes at more distant objects in the Cosmos see those objects as they were and not as they are; what they see is, mostly, hydrogen. Heavier elements came later, and from abiogenesis, came molecules that could make copies of themselves, but with copies, came errors, most of which were either benign or deleterious to the molecules. With a few molecules, however, those errors conferred advantage, and with advantage, those molecules were more successful at reproducing than their peers. And, so, natural selection came on the scene, with mobility developing, and then, bigger bodies, and with those, brains, and then, bigger brains; and here we are, some 4 billion years later.
Point is that complexity existing or simply arising out of nothing has never been observed, by anyone; the narrative of science has been observing simpler things evolving into more complex things.