Feeling Reality (General)

by dhw, Sunday, February 13, 2011, 08:34 (5031 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Your comments are why I am an Aristotelian. Everything we see, study and know screams for design. Chance requires as much or, to my way of analysis, much more faith than design. If one accepts 'first cause', which is logical to accept, since everything we see in our level of reality has a cause, then here must be a designing first cause.-I needn't put the case for design, because you argue it better than anyone I know. The first cause, as I see it, might be an impersonal, non-conscious universe which, by chance, has spawned life as we know it. The first cause you believe in is a living force which has an intelligence infinitely greater and more complex than our own, and which was not designed. If you can believe in that form of non-designed, conscious, intelligent life, you might just as well believe in the equally inconceivable non-design of the lesser living force (us). Won't you join me on the fence?