The Postulation of a Designer (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, February 11, 2008, 20:54 (6128 days ago) @ Peter P

Perhaps I need to explain in more detail why I consider that "The postulation of a 'designer' to guide this process is just so over the top in improbabilities as not to be worth considering." - What does it take to be a designer? Intelligence, to be able to formulate a design. Power, to move atoms around to form the necessary configurations. Unless of course it doesn't actually have to do anything but sit around and let the natural processes proceed as they will over eons. But then it might as well not exist. - But what evidence is there that there is any such entity, and if it exists how did it come into existence? Presumably it must have evolved. More probably it was not working alone but as part of a committee or research project! We can imagine that these beings were the end-product of evolution in an earlier universe. Of course this is just science fiction. But so also is any other scenario involving a creator-being. We usually call it a "myth" to give it more dignity than a mere "fiction". - If we want to believe in such a being or beings, which myth do we choose to believe? There are so many possibilities we could think of. All of them are improbable compared with the minimal assumptions necessary, namely that it was all a natural process, not needing the input of any deus ex machina. - In the absence of other evidence of the existence of such a being it is sensible to shelve the idea.