Help refuting an Intelligent design argument

[Rahn127]

IDK if I have time to help you draft an argument, but you can bounce ideas of me. What's this 3 pronged argument?

Thanks for helping.  1) Intelligence is known to cause effects exhibiting information rich and specified complexity.
              
                              2) The universe and life are effects that exhibit information rich in specified complexity.

                              3) Therefore, intelligence is a possible cause for the universe and life. 

    Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

    John

Intelligence is rich in information and specified complexity

1. Intelligence causes intelligence.
Humans do produce humans.

2. The universe and life are complex.
I suppose so.

3. Intelligence is a product that forms within a universe. It cannot create universes.

[The Valkyrie]

Remember that ID is a repackaged and renamed creationism.

A chrome plated, polished turd is still a turd.

[Jrouche]

Remember that ID is a repackaged and renamed creationism.

A chrome plated, polished turd is still a turd.

V, Thanks for your input. Yes, I have given him lengthy explanations and even pointed out it was defeated in court and could not be taught in science classes because it was religious based and they used God in the premises.They then changed it to Intelligent Designer or agent to skirt the legal arguments and it was still rejected. Sigh...

[vulcanlogician]

Ok. I'm back.

Specified complexity is a concept proposed by William Dembski and used by him and others to promote the pseudoscientific arguments of intelligent design. According to Dembski, the concept can formalize a property that singles out patterns that are both specified and complex, where in Dembski's terminology, a specified pattern is one that admits short descriptions, whereas a complex pattern is one that is unlikely to occur by chance. Proponents of intelligent design use specified complexity as one of their two main arguments...  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified_complexity

Yay! Your friend's argument contains a pseudoscientific concept that was invented for the express purpose of making ID arguments intelligible.

I neither have the time nor energy to parse through this bullshit, but this wiki article covers some of the basic criticisms of specified complexity and should serve as a fine starting point for your research.

[Jrouche]

Ok. I'm back.

Specified complexity is a concept proposed by William Dembski and used by him and others to promote the pseudoscientific arguments of intelligent design. According to Dembski, the concept can formalize a property that singles out patterns that are both specified and complex, where in Dembski's terminology, a specified pattern is one that admits short descriptions, whereas a complex pattern is one that is unlikely to occur by chance. Proponents of intelligent design use specified complexity as one of their two main arguments, alongside .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified_complexity

Yay! Your friend's argument contains a pseudoscientific concept that was invented for the express purpose of making ID arguments intelligible.

I neither have the time nor energy to parse through this bullshit, but this wiki article covers some of the basic criticisms of specified complexity and should serve as a fine starting point for your research.

Thanks for taking the time--I knew it was all bullshit.

[ignoramus]

Tell him that whenever I see umbrellas I see rain, therefore umbrellas must cause rain

[Jrouche]

Tell him that whenever I see umbrellas I see rain, therefore umbrellas must cause rain

LOL--Thanks, I'll toss that in the vat--best, John

[vulcanlogician]

Tell him that whenever I see umbrellas I see rain, therefore umbrellas must cause rain

No! No! No! You've got it all wrong. Mary Poppins causes rain and (just by coincidence), she happens to have an umbrella. But her umbrella isn't the cause, she is. Also, chimney sweeps are the cause of soot. Those were my two main takeaways from that movie.

[madog]

1) The Big Bang, Intelligence and evolution are known to cause effects exhibiting information rich and specified complexity.


2) The universe and life are effects that exhibit information rich in specified complexity.


3) Therefore, the Big Bang, Intelligence and evolution are possible causes for the universe and life

[The Valkyrie]

Just remember that the world is flat, is only 6 thousand years old, and that gravity is only a theory and should share the classroom with Intelligent Falling.