Belief (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 08, 2011, 02:01 (5067 days ago) @ xeno6696

Dhw,I accidently deleted my post... plz reply to it...-
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> With no language, no KNOWLEDGE of all these things, how can X reasonably expect that ANYTING is 'designed?' 
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> We don't have knowledge that life can even be created; we have no paradigm with which that we can reasonably compare with life's complexity... 
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> Radios and computers are only complex to you, dhw, because you don't know how to make one. It's not something that's in your knowledge base. The comparison of life to man made objects further suffers when you consider that engineering is about simple and concise designs; life is neither. 
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> If you have no idea how to design something, you have no reasonable claim that some comparable thing was designed.-Your thought experiment fails in several ways. Your human is a blank slate. We think in words. He cannot. He cannot recognize design. To quote you: 'we don't have the knowledge that life can even be created'. But WE are here, and life was created somehow. Then to paraphrase you: life is neither simple nor concise in its design. And then you complain to dhw, that he cannot recognize design if he doesn't know how to design something. Come on. We, who are not blank slates, easily recognize design. And those of us who would like a satisfying answer now, can easily choose design, because life surely 'looks' designed. I understand your circumscribed reluctance. Unfortunately, the answer to the question,'is there a God?', will never be answered with perfect proof, unless He appears.