Arguments against Design (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 13:28 (5408 days ago) @ dhw

1) It is not necessary to postulate a designer. Chance and the natural laws provide an adequate explanation. - > 2) The postulation of a designer merely replaces one mystery with another. George: "We need to know how the gods themselves evolved and acquired their powers to intervene in nature." - This was one of my earlier arguments as well. "You have to know the limits of a proposed deity, know something about it for you to be able to posit it." - > 3) George: "Since a conscious designer would be a life-form, such a hypothesis entirely undermines the theory by assuming that life already existed before life evolved." - This here I think is the biggest and largest problem with design. It begs the question. - > 4) The free-for-all of life on Earth shows no sign of the presence of any kind of designer. - You can really eliminate this one as it's covered by 1. - > 5) What form could such a designer take? We only know of the material, natural world. Any immaterial, supernatural being is pure imagination. 
> - A little extreme here, and it ties in with both 1, 2, and 3, I'd like to request a change: - What form could such a take? If it is immaterial, how could you say you "knew" anything about it? What limits would it have to have? - > Feel free to add more objections, to comment on these objections, to disagree with these objections, but please remember that they are an attempt to provide a neutral summary and I am not putting forward arguments of my own. Yet.

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