Epistemology of Design (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 13, 2009, 01:37 (5458 days ago) @ Matt

It seems you are trying to prove a designer or creator by studying the whole universe, presuming that the appearance of life is predetermined and therefore we must look at the designer's plan from the beginning. I'm willing to take the early part of the plan as a given, and start just on Earth. -Assume that we study life and find that the controls in DNA/RNA/epigenetics/ methylation/etc. are thousands, or millions of times more complex than we now know. Starting with very simple chemicals and reaching that level of complexity implies an enormous number of contingent steps, the odds for which appearing spontaneously would also become so enormous as to reach a probability limit. To me this would be an inferred proof of a designer. You seem to want an absolute proof. I am content with an inferred one.