Proof of ID: An essay (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, June 28, 2015, 14:26 (3436 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: let me reiterate that while I find it impossible to believe in chance as the designer of life in all its complexity, I find it equally impossible to believe in a sourceless, eternal, universal, immaterial mind. Since neither theory is supported by any proof, let alone “absolute proof”, I remain agnostic. -DAVID: You are willing to look at chance and design and reject both, and therefore have no reasonable theory of our existence. -I have three theories, not one of which seems to me to be reasonable enough to warrant belief. Not believing, however, is not the same as rejecting.
 
DAVID: Just accept that something must be eternal, no beginning, no end.-dhw: I did so long ago. What I do not accept - or reject - is the theory that the “something” (energy and matter?) has a mind.-DAVID: So what did it have to create progress to now?-An infinite number of material combinations which eventually led by chance or by some inner “panpsychist” mental aspect (see the post on consciousness) to organic life and evolution - again, theories which I neither accept nor reject.