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Author Topic:   Is complexity an argument against design?
Buzsaw
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Message 88 of 142 (475836)
07-18-2008 9:22 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Alasdair
02-02-2006 12:48 PM


No Intelligent Design
Alasdair writes:
When you come across a pile of rocks, and pick one of them up, you can quickly see how complex it is. The probability of that rock having formed in that exact shape is astronomically small. It'll be such a complex shape, and would take so many parameters to fully describe it.
On the other hand, you could come across a perfect cube in the rock pile, and infer that it is designed - because it's so simple. You could just use one parameter to describe it (length or width or depth). Doesn't simplicity infer design rather than complexity?
The rock was shaped randomly without intelligent design via natural processes. The only thing complex about the rock is the properties of it such as atoms, etc.
OTO the cube has all of the complexities that the randomly shaped rocks have plus the shape indicative of intelligent design which obviously formed it's intelligently designated shape.

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

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