03.30.10
Greta Christina: Design and theism
Why ‘The Universe Is Perfectly Set Up For Life’ Is a Terrible Justification for God’s Existence
If you think the Universe is so perfectly fine-tuned to allow life to come into being so therefore life must have been created this way on purpose — think again.
March 30, 2010 |
“But the Universe is so perfectly fine-tuned for life. What are the chances that this happened by accident? Doesn’t it seem like the Universe had to have been created this way on purpose?”As I’ve written before: Many arguments for religion and against atheism are so bad, they can’t even be considered arguments. They’re not serious attempts to offer evidence or reason supporting the existence of God. They’re simply attempts to deflect legitimate questions, or ad-hominem insults of atheists, or the baffling notion that “I want to believe” is a good argument, or attempts to just make the questions go away. Or similar nonsense.
The design argument is not one that I can accept, but at the same time it does remain a challenge for those who think that Darwinist is the rival answer.
It is equally ridiculous to propose that Darwinism explains away what design thinking attempts to explain.
In any case, the use of the term ‘god’ is so vague as to be useless for this discussion.
Nightgaunt said,
March 30, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Actually the use of the word “god” is used incorrectly! It originally meant to “call a deity to you” but now is a generic to call such a theoi or meet one.
A theoi, from the Greek from which we get the word “theology,” were powerful but invisible entities that communicated with some humans. Various groups worshiped such beings then and now. (Under different names.)
The first problem I have is this use of “Darwinian” for Evolution even though we don’t say “Newtonian” when we generally speak of physics these days. The same rule applies, what Darwin didn’t know just as Newton was unaware of in the sciences they pioneered. I only hear that being used by critics who want to criticize the man as an extension in not embodiment of the science. Very bad way of thinking and arguing any point unless he was the only one who is or was following it. Like Scientology which is a creation of one man and that would be where it would apply.