The Postulation of a Designer (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by John Clinch , London, Wednesday, March 05, 2008, 13:58 (6106 days ago) @ dhw

A point of order. You said:- - "I will own to a degree of scepticism about the following dogmas: 1) one day science will explain everything and thereby disprove the existence of a designer; 2) we are the product of a designer who created the world and everything in it". - You can do better than that, surely? Who seriously DOES believe the statement that "one day science will explain everything and thereby disprove the existence of a designer"? Not me, not anyone I know and not even, I dare suggest, Mr Dawkins either. - See my posting of today's date in the "near to death episodes" thread on the point of inherent limitations to scientific study and where that should leave us in relation to reality that cannot be observed or tested. - It's just that I am confident that it will explain abiogenesis and, I reiterate, if THAT is the issue that makes you an agnostic, it's a God-of-the-gaps argument you're using (or, I guess, an agnostic-of-the-gaps in your case). And we all know that, historically, the proponents of such arguments always end up eating humble pie (unless they're died-in-the-wool ignorami). - You need a sounder premise.