[lit-ideas] Re: Richard Dawkins on Kansas, scientific logic and mystery

  • From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:00:23 -0700

The New Yorker has an article on Intelligent Design (ID) this week.

It discusses the positions and ideas of the two main ID proponents.

But they don't mention the logical fallacy in ID. ID argues that life shows 
there must have 
been an "intelligent designer". So who is (or was) this Intelligent Designer? 
Either the 
Christian's god (they secretly hope) or aliens on Andromeda.

Let's assume it was the Frog People on Andromeda. So... where did they come 
from? Either 
they evolved or they were also created by an intelligent designer (IDer).

But that opens up a regression error; You can't regress further and further; 
the first IDer 
had to either evolve or be created by a god.

So ID can't argue that there are "others" who are the IDers; they must 
postulate that the ID 
is god. And not just any god: the vast majority of the 600 million or so Hindu 
gods, plus 
the few thousand non-Hindu gods don't particular care for creation or design. 
They're mostly 
just party people, like Paris Hilton.

Thus ID really does have a conclusion already in place: their Christian god 
created life. 
Are they willing to accept the consequences of science? If the theory is 
disproven, they 
have to abandon it.

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com 

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