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Intelligent Design Made Mankind?


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Excerpt from Why Does God Hate Amputees?
November 17, 2005

Today’s “Intelligent Design” movement is based on an argument not unlike the one used by William Paley just before Darwin’s day. Paley believed that if you found a watch in a forest, you would not assume it had formed there by itself. You would assume that it had been made ultimately by a “watchmaker.”

By extension then, the human body is like a watch. The human body is complex—“irreducibly” complex according to the “Intelligent Design” movement. And so one might argue as Paley did that the human body could not have formed by itself. It had to have been made by an “Intelligent Designer.”

If the Intelligent Designer actually exists, here is a thought experiment for us to ponder. 

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Posted by  on  11/30  at  06:43 PM

You have only disproved the christian designer which anyone could do.
Nature made us? This is entirely possible but who made nature?
I know what you are saying in your head. Well if god made nature who made god? That is the beauty of it everything comes from something because matter can't randomly exist it has to be put there.
So the creator is just the one who started it all. It is some form of being capable at least of creating simple molecules and atoms that later perhaps even by their own means became the universe today. Even the simple gases that make up the universe could not exist without a creator

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