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The idea that living organisms were designed comes from a common belief that complex human-made things have been designed. But is this correct?
The observations would seem to confirm this statement.
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Let's see examples of the most complex human-made things like: modern Nokia mobile phone, Boing 747 airplane, Windows-XP operating system, and let's asks the following question: have these very complex systems been designed?
It seems they were. All observation points to human intelligence designing those objects.
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It is not easy to trace the history of living organisms emerging on earth and to prove if they were designed or evolved, as it is not possible to find all the required evidences.
But for the human-made things the history of their emergence is well known.
Obviously that's true.
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If one looks at the history of the above mentioned human-made complex things, it becomes obvious that all of them have been evolved.
Actually, none have been evolved in the sense you are thinking of.
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Airplanes, mobile phones, computer products have been evolved step-by-step, by trial-and-error method.
With or without an intelligent input? With an anitelligent input, obviously. That is why they are called designed. The mechanism of how they were actually designed is irrelevant. But they did infact come about by directed intelligent cause. Not an undirected natural cause, like people assert that is evolution.
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No single human and even not a huge group of humans is able of designing a complex thing that never have existed before.
But they are able to design. And natural processes are not. That's the point.
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Any complex thing appears upon a base of another complex things that already exist.
Yes, with a constant input form an intelligent source. Not an undirected natural source. Again, that is the point.
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The most intelligent persons like Leonardo Da Vinchi, Newton or Aristotle could never have designed an airplane, a mobile phone or a computer program.
But they did design other thing.
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And Bill Gates with his team could not have designed Windows XP in 1981, when they created DOS.
But they did eventually design XP and Vista, and soon, Windows 7. Nature has never been observed to come close to that.
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And not because of the short of intelligence or small amount of people. In order to appear, Windows XP required a long series of steps, where the product of each step had to be checked by the environment: the market.
Actually it was the intelligence of the programmers who built Windows XP. You are going of track here. The availability and profit-gain of a program has nothing to do with human ability to make one. If the market is not ready for some piece of software, it's not going to be made. But that doesn't mean it can't be made. On the other hand, there were no observations of nature ever doing anything as complex as Windows XP.
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Lots of computer programs improved by small changes, then were exposed to the market and those which survived became a basis for the future programs.
Again, this has nothing to do with intelligence's abillity to actualy make the program. This has more to do with profits. Is the program profitable or not. If it is, it's going to be released, if not, than it's not going to be released. This has nothing to do with undirected natural processes making complex objects like Windows XP.
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This is the only way that could allow Windows XP to appear.
Yes, through an effor of a lot of intelligent sources, i.e. people.
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All inventions in the world are actually very small steps based on something that already exists.
Again, yes, and the next invention is the improvemnet of the previous one by an intelligent input. Not an unintelligent one.
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No invention can create something much more complex than currently existing.
Depends on what you mean by "much more complex".
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So the conclusion is that all human-made complex things have been evolved and not designed.
Depends on how you define evolved, and designed. If by evolved you mean undirected nautral cause, than no, you are obviously wrong. If by evolved you mean sligh intelligent inouts over time, that yes, you are right. But int that case, that is also the definition of a designed object. Regardless of the mechanism that brought it about.
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And if it is true from human-made complex things - why should it be wrong for the natural complex things (the living organisms)?
Exactly, seems, they were all designed. The only thing we don't know is by which mechanism and how long did it take. But they were designed.
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