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More of a counter to the intelligent design argument. Well, at least to the intelligent part. Proponents of intelligent design tend to be religious, and having
by sorokod 12y ago
More of a counter to the intelligent design argument. Well, at least to the intelligent part. Proponents of intelligent design tend to be religious, and having difficulty accepting a fallible deity
- vidarh 12y agoThis is how I use it in debates where intelligent design proponents will on top of the complexity argument tend to use examples of how fantastic everything is as evidence of design. A blatant example of something that seems so in your face obviously flawed tends to throw them. It's also useful because the complexity of the eye is often used as an argument for ID on the assumption that an incomplete eye would be useless, but for the eye we do have a long range of intermediate stages that would provide useful levels of sight, and we can show a long range of variations over eyes in existing organisms.
- afarrell 12y agoAlso, thoughtful design pushes things toward simplicity, not complexity.
- alphapapa 12y agoIf the universe and everything in it--including ourselves--was created by an intelligent creator being, then we would be in no place to judge whether such a being was fallible. The very concept of what constitutes an error would be defined by the being itself.
- sorokod 12y agoWith this premise, will not "intelligent" be as questionable as fallible?