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Biology is a complete joke though; everything works, but only just, and certainly not forever. There's just no evidence of intelligent design when it comes to biology
However, when we look at the unimaginable complexity of the human brain, or any brain for that matter this might suggest an IDAlan
Example, the exactitude of the fundamental constants and if even one differed minutely we would simple have never come into existence
When thinking of ID I always end up with the question of: how did the intelligent designer come to exist; and what is the purpose of the design.There was a science fiction story that explained it; I forget the name of it; but essentially, the intelligent designers were robots doing an experiment to try and determine how their own intelligent designers came to be. Their experiment is attempting to determine whether carbon-based life forms could evolve to become capable of making intelligent robots.
The concept of Intelligent Design implies that some designer contemplated humanity and produced mechanisms to bring it into being. But looking out into the universe, humanity seems to be so insignificant that it is hard to imagine such a humongous design just to create a human habitat.
If a designer has designed a race of people that can destroy a planet and its life in a few centuries than he wouldnt be a very good designer.
But are we really so insignificant? Einstein also remarked that what is really incomprehensible about humanity, is that we can comprehend so much
Incidentally, has anyone ever considered the possibillity of "stupid design" ie that there is a "creator" but He's just not very good at this sort of thing. That's why the world is in a bit of a mess and why there are so many cockups with the design of humans- for example, the blood vessels feeding out retina are in the way of the light that the retina is there to sense.There are plenty of other examples.
Postulating a designer is useless. It explains absolutely nothing. You then have an infinite regression consisting of questions like "who created the designer?", "what are the properties of the designer?", "how does the designer work?", "how does the designer create?". It does not help our understanding of the universe to say "goddidit".
I suspect that most of us just accept as real that which someone we trust tells us is real.
I like to think that somewhere out there in the vastness of the universe there is/are intelligences far more advanced than we are. There might be beings so advanced compared to humanity that for all tends and proposes they would be undisguisedly to us from out best concept of god
Who created the designer, we must come to a place in out understanding that we have to admit there are mysteries out there in the universe that even the best human mind would never comprehend
What about irreducible complexity, maybe the eye, this amazing biological instruments really seems to me that it was a design be someoneA cockroach is hugely hugely more complex than mans most complex machine, namely the space shuttle
Once we understand physics fully(if we dont go extinct in the next few centuries) we will have no need for supernatural speculation.