Re: Origin of life, thermodynamics 2/2 #2

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:13:14 -0700

"The phrase of yours that particularly bothers me is, "How you
could conclude from looking at this that there is an intelligent
designer is beyond me." Are you really serious when you make
a statement like that or are you just posturing? I see all sorts
of things around my house that have varying degrees of complexity.
I conclude that from the end product that someone designed them."

No you conclude from the location and the lack of alternative hypotheses
that it is probably designed. The question is, how do you decide if
something is designed or something is just natural ? The sorted pebbles on
the beach ? The layering of deposits ? Design ? Or just natural causes ?

"Is that an unreasonable conclusion? Must I go to China and confirm
that a certain individual there designed my shoes before my
conclusion would be a reasonable one? For all intents and purposes
this is an unseen designer as far as I am concerned."

Of course there is more to it than just observing it.

That you believe that something is designed does not make it so. So my
question stands, how do you conclude from looking at something that there
is an intelligent designer ?