Hi all, not sure if this has been posted before so apologies if it has, I've looked, but can't see it.
Every time I look at the phrase "Intelligent Design", it makes me laugh.
The reason being that this idea, is held, mainly by apparently devout (arguably fundamentalist) Christians.
The reason I find this funny, is that the definition of "Intelligent Design" and the definition of "God" are totally incompatible.
True some of the words in there are difficult to pin meanings onto, but even a rough approximation should be enough to demonstrate....
Intelligence- Hard to define, there's so many different facets to Intelligence, but it's not too important for this point, so I'll define it as "the ability to create and manipulate abstractions"
If anyone's got a particular problem with this definition, feel free to add or remove what you like, it's not material to this point, tho I believe the definitions ok.
Here's where the problems start-
Design- To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent:
To formulate a plan for; devise:
then...
God- Again difficulty in a concise definition, but there's some things all Creationists believe, He's omniscient,omnipotent and eternal, those are the important ones.
Now design, essentially, is when we replace the actual trial and error process with an abstract version of same. Suggesting God did this means He can err.
That's blasphemy isn't it?
And of course although we don't have a definition for intelligence, we do know some of it's properties.It requires learning, and most importantly, it requires
change. Whatever else intelligence may be one of the few things we can say about it for definite is that it changes.
Which is also blasphemy. God is eternal, and (usually) atemporal.
So can anyone see a way out of this dilemma?
For the miscellaneous section (I think)
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