Intelligent Designer.If oxygen levels on earth were higher or lower, animal, human, and plant life couldn't exist. If the earth were closer to the sun it would be too hot to support life; if it were farther away it would be too cold.the inter-dependent complexities of the cell, the human eye, and the eco-system displayed intelligent design that could only come from an Intelligent Designer, such as the Christian concept of God.If you find a watch on the sidewalk, you assume it was made by a watchmaker, that it did not come to be as a product of accidental combination of atoms over time. In the same way, the universe displays even greater evidence of design, so we can logically infer an Intelligent Designer (God) right???
2006-10-23 05:31:50 · 22 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here is my answer to your "irreducible complexity" reasoning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Criticisms_and_contrary_evidence
P.S. The Dec. 20, 2005 ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case had this to say: The overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District#Decision
2006-10-23 05:33:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I question the concept of a personal god. I do not see and have not heard of anyone who is lead by a personal leader.I listened to the preachers on Tv answering questions, and realize they are not saying anything. When I tell people I don't see anything personal, I'm told I don't believe hard enough. And yet the word faith is a noun. Do I ask for a bigger one? How about 2 of them? What is reasonable to ask? I keep getting angel visit stories in the e mail, and yet I can't find one person who's had a visit.
I see yahoo answers saying "God is the answer" Surely the creator of the universe can have a better system than "Guess which religion is the right one?"
2006-10-23 05:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong.
Just because something is complex doesn't mean there has to be a designer for it -- that's a serious logical flaw. Your premise does not lead to your conclusion, as there are a multitude of possible "causes" for complexity other than "a designer." You've just picked one that you happen to like, and called it the only possible conclusion -- completely wrong.
*Of course* conditions in the universe and on this planet are just right for life -- if they weren't, we couldn't have evolved here. And you wouldn't be here to ask these questions. Do you think you could have evolved in the form you're in on a planet where it's 200 deg. F all day? Nope. Again, your logic is backwards. Look up the "anthropic principle" and you'll get a better understanding of your backwards logic.
2006-10-23 05:39:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Except most of the species that have existed are now extinct which argues for unintelligent design. Humans have several physiological flaws that couldn't have been designed-the position of the prostate gland for example ensures that prostate cancer is endemic amongst older men. The inability to synthesise vitamin c is a disadvantage. The evidence points to random chance and mutations leading to evolutionary change rather than intelligent design.
2006-10-23 05:42:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This total bunk! First, there is plenty of life at great extremes here on Earth that you or I could Not exist in. The bottom of the Ocean where no light exists is teeming with A life that is, from our frame of reference, totally hostile.
Therefore your argument omits entire areas of our plants that do not fit your tired old fallacious suppositions. By the way, IF EYES are so "god perfect" to you, then why do I need to read with glasses?
You need some lessons in reasoning and logic!
2006-10-23 05:39:37 · answer #5 · answered by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope....your dead wrong on all counts. Just because something is complex, or you can't understand how it could have come to be without a "God" does not mean that there is a God.
Darwinian evolution is NOT just random chance and if you believe it is you simple do not understand the very basics.
Evolution via natural selection is not random. This mechanism selects for useful characteristic over millions of year. The only thing that may have happened randomly is the first life, after that its pretty clear what has happened.
As for the cosmos, cosmologist are very close to understand how it came into being, again just because you don't understand it does not mean there is a god, only that you are ignorant.
2006-10-23 05:34:05 · answer #6 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"If oxygen levels on earth were higher or lower, animal, human, and plant life couldn't exist."
this is a meaningless statement, YES they could exist, they simply would not exist in their present form
"If the earth were closer to the sun it would be too hot to support life; if it were farther away it would be too cold.the inter-dependent complexities of the cell, the human eye,"
these are also EQUALLY as meaningless, there are a number of planets within our solar system, some of them are too hot, some too cold, we are on the one that is neither, therefore this planet can support life but the fact that this planet isn't one of the too hot or too cold ones does not imply there is a god, it simply means that if there are a bunch of planets orbiting a sun, probably at least one of them will be withing the temperature range to support life.
2006-10-23 05:35:59 · answer #7 · answered by Nick F 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. The complexity of life is only evidence of the complexity of life. Anyway, the watchmaker analogy can only be used to indicate a multitude of Gods, not one God, as the more complex designer would, to continue the argument, require a designer, and so on...
2006-10-23 05:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If God could create anything...why wouldn't he just say....this planet has liveable air, simple as that!
In truth there are to many complexities and details in the universe for God to have thought of and created. It just wouldn't make sense to create a trillion worthless planets, tiny bacteria that have only one purpose to kill living flesh etc etc etc!
2006-10-23 07:18:26 · answer #9 · answered by JoNaThAn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are trillions of planets that are too far or too close to their sun and nothing ever happens there. If you have trillions upon trillions of planets and billions and billions of years, eventually some of them end up in the right position and the circumstances of life are there.
2006-10-23 05:45:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋