Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, January 02, 2015, 15:57 (3613 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Fair enough. But you have never explained how initial intelligence evolved, just that energy/matter must have done it.
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> dhw: Not “must” - that's the sort of vocabulary you like to use. I use “may” or “might”, because unlike theists and atheists, I am not restricted to a single hypothesis. You have never explained how initial intelligence came to exist. Just that it IS. I don't call than an explanation.-Necessity. If you believe in a first cause and that complexity is now present that requires planning, it is an obviously logical step to accept a planning intelligence in the beginning. The issue is complex planning. You want simple energy and simple matter interact to produce complexity. Rabbit out of hat? Chance?