Arguments against Design (General)

by David Turell , Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 14:12 (5594 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 14:42

It has also been argued by proponents of design that some of the developments in the course of evolution itself are too complex to have come about without the input of a designing intelligence. - It is not possible to simply throw this possibility aside. I actually think that I am a small part of a designing universal intelligence. 
The next part is not intellectual. The concept makes me feel good, as when I think of loving my wife. Both my love of her and my concept of that universal intelligence are at the same level of emotional thought.
 
> In spite of my abject failure to bring order to the evolution thread with a summary, I will now try to summarize the objections to design, plus the complications involved in such a concept: - > 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." - Since we cannot intimately 'know' the designer, how do we know that it is a life-form as we define that term. Adler makes the designer a 'person like no other person',but that is not our form of natural life. It is supernatural. - > 4) The free-for-all of life on Earth shows no sign of the presence of any kind of designer. - This can prove just the opposite conclusion. If one wanted to create a factory for all living things, the Earth is a perfect design, just like Paley's watch. No one has ever found an undesigned factory. - And here is how intelligent design can speeed evolution. Punctuated equilibrium in the lab: - http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/727/1