I'd like specific examples or reasons. I am wondering exactly what convinces you that the world was designed by a supreme creator. What about nature makes you think it had to be designed?
2007-10-02 03:46:09 · 12 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hummingbirds...
2007-10-02 03:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may actually have been the way religion got started to begin with. Before there was science when people were starting to question where everything came from... they knew that many things in their world were made, for example tools, axes, pans, weapons, clothing etc... so they natually asked themselves about the world around them, "who made all this?" Eventually someone came up with the idea of a super person they called 'god' who made everything that they didn't make. This is however a naieve view of the world based on the ignorant assumption that "someone must have made it". This is not logical. It does not follow that simply because there are things, that someone must have made them. Additionally this analogy was adopted from the fact that humans had made things. What if we had evolved in a different way, where we didn't make things - would we have come up with this idea that therefore someone must have made everything else - most likely not.
2007-10-02 10:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Ever looked at a living cell? It's this machine of intricate interconnected pieces!
Ever seen a computer? Obviously, you're using one right now. A computer didn't just come together in a junkyard explosion did it? No. Some one programmed it, arranged information in a specific pattern so that you could use the machine.
You do not get order out of disorder. You don't get information from randomness.
You don't get a computer program without a programmer. You don't get a skyscraper without an architect. You don't get a Creation without a Creator.
2007-10-02 11:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by R v 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most believers in Intelligent Design have begun with the premise that God exists. If you do not begin with this premise, you will never arrive at it as a conclusion.
edit: I shouldn't say "never." Anthony Flew is an example of an atheist convinced by the Design Argument to become a deist. But with a proper education in cosmology and without assuming God's existence, one would never come to believe.
2007-10-02 10:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Give me an example of order happening on its own.
Everyday we have to spend time and energy to look our best, clean our houses and cars, take out the trash, pull the weeds out, mow the lawn etc.
From my experience order is not the natural state of things, only disorder.
2007-10-02 11:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone can be blamed for thinking this initially. It seems like a viable explanation when you see all this amazing stuff around.
But never to have the curiosity, drive or gumption to go out and look for the real answer, and discover the extraordinary and counterintuitive process that creates complexity from simplicity - to settle for Goddidit and look no further - *that* is despicable.
CD
2007-10-02 10:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Let me correct your question: Please replace the word "think" with "believe".
Intelligent designed, creationism, is not scientific but a belief.
Eastern philosophy such as Dao mentions Dao and De, but not about their intelligence. Buddhism has no creator.
Answer: No. God is the creator so without Him there is no intelligent design.
2007-10-02 10:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Then only thing I can think of is the continued use of similar patterns that indicate one entity played a large role in the design and execution. Most life follows a similar predictable pattern.
2007-10-02 10:50:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course, everything made had a "Thinker" behind it. Everything man makes is thought out. Look around you!
Whether we think it has a purpose or not, everything created has a purpose and it was created for God's pleasure and God called it good. But then sin came.
I love apples. They were created for me to eat. Right size and right taste. Thank you, Lord.
2007-10-02 10:55:02 · answer #9 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Their pastors tell them so.
Hey, if Platypus was from the Greek it would be Playpuses, like Octopuses, and besides you know monotremes do nothing but shed furhter light on the grand clade of all life.
2007-10-02 10:50:28 · answer #10 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋