Theistic evolution vs. Darwinism (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, June 03, 2013, 16:17 (3979 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: No matter whether the Big Bang theory is true or not, you yourself have consistently pointed out that we haven't a clue what could have preceded the Big Bang. We are all groping in the dark, and for a faithless neutral like myself, 123 zillion universes in eternity is just as likely/unlikely as an unknown and unknowable quantum mind that has also existed for eternity and has created just one.-DAVID: If God came to you and shook your hand, you would ask Him if He was the real one. Philosophic analysis of scientific findings has to start with the available science. If everything smells of design, there must be a designer. That should be no surprise.-The available science can offer us nothing but materials. If there "must be a designer", then it can only be some form of intelligence directing the materials themselves from within, just as the individual brain directs the individual body from within. Science has never found any other form of intelligence, let alone a universal, eternal, hidden, quantum mind that could come and shake me by the hand. It's not a bad argument for my panpsychist hypothesis. Thank you.