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Please explain how the complexity of God arose independently of natural cumulative selection processes like evolution. The Blind Watchmaker might be an interest

• reubenswartz 6y ago
  Not trying to pick a fight, just asking a question-- if you think the natural world as we see it could not have arisen "on its own" through the laws of nature, how did something even more amazing come to be?
  • tt433 6y ago
    To be frank, I have no idea. It would be folly for me to guess. Still, the notion of intelligent design explaining the awesome complexity of life by waiving it away with an additional, spontaneous and inexplicable divine entity of essentially infinite complexity just occurring out of nowhere makes even less sense to me personally than the spontaneous existence of a "basic" "unguided" universe with the potential for cumulative selection to cause complex life independently of a guiding hand. Intelligent design postulates that a divine entity spontaneously existed and all complexity is the result of that entity, whereas evolution explains complexity via long term cumulative selection. I struggle to rationalize the spontaneous complexity that intelligent design must justify.
  • shuntress 6y ago
    The same way as everything else: On its own through the laws of nature.