The Blind Watchmaker?

Hi Dogrelata.The problems with your assessment of Paley are:1. That the evolution of the models you've cited such as the watch and the automobile was effected all the way via accumulative ID via multitudes of intelligent designers working together to effect the alleged evolution of the complicated systems observed. None, nada of it was via natural selection.2. The automobile (abe: wheeled vehicles) and the watch (abe: instruments of time) did not evolve. They were hand crafted/created all the way up from the simplest to the most complex by intelligent human inventors/designers/engineers/craftsmen/manufacturers.Edited by Buzsaw, : as noted

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

That depends on what ID model is applied. Using the Biblical model the designer from which all the energy came and by which it exists has been eternally the same omniscient omnipotent being. This model satisfies the 1,2 and 3 LTD in that all energy existing now has always existed and has always been managed by design involving designer work.Of course this model like every other model including BB and ToE has the problem of evidence. Then too, all models have major unknowns. The Biblical model has the unknown of how the designer could have existed eternally. For example the ToE and BB models have the problems of 1LoT as to where the BB energy came from and how abiogenesis came about.Abe: Since William Paley's design model was Biblical you can't falsify his analogy and POV on designer inability.If one argues then that the Biblical designer is not falsifyable another can argue that neither is the singularity or abiogenesis. Edited by Buzsaw, : No reason given.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

But all of the above can be said of the Biblical model. It also involves gathering data, corroborating the evidences, exploration, logic, experience, observation of effects on cultures, etc.As with your model, the unknown faith aspects of the varied hypotheses are supported by the corroborated evidences and gathered info. We've debated a few of these evidences in the threads over time and there's more. Our faith is by no means blind. Not so. We debate these alledgements regularly in the threads.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.