Evolution in schools; legal trap (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, June 05, 2012, 15:02 (4532 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: An example of ID work, this time philosophy. Abiogenesis cannot spontaneously happen:-http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/on-the-impossibility-of-abiogenesis/-Try and pick apart the reasoning.-It's the same reasoning as Hoyle's Boeing 747, monkeys writing Shakespeare on a typewriter, and a million other analogies. Frankly, you don't even need all this turgid scientific verbiage, since no-one would believe that even a Tesco shopping bag had assembled itself by chance. You yourself, David, have offered us the same argument in far less portentous terms (for which I thank you). Pick apart the reasoning? Of course I can't. Until we get to the conclusion:-"If biological cells contain computers and computers cannot be created by C&N, then the origin of such biological systems is not natural and implies the intervention of that which is able to work out symbolic linguistic information processing namely, intelligence. Such transcendent intelligence, whose hardware and software designs are before our eyes, may be called the Great Designer."-This is where the reasoning always falls apart. If you cannot believe in a self-generating biological intelligence, how can you believe in an invisible super-intelligence that has generated itself or has simply been around forever? "First cause" is no argument, since it still boils down to the same old choice between two unbelievable hypotheses: an undesigned material intelligence and an undesigned non-material super-intelligence. But don't take any notice of me, because one way or another I'm wrong!