[extropy-chat] Intelligent Design and Irriducible Complexity

[Adrian Tymes]

But the intelligent designer is obviously so
intelligent that it designed itself, and could ignore
cause and effect limitations when doing so.  :P

--- Kurt Schoedel <kurt at metatechnica.com> wrote:
> The amusing thing about the "Intelligent Design"
> croud is that their 
> arguments can be used against them. 
> 
> The creationists argue that biological systems so
> complex, irriducibly 
> complex that they simply cannot have evolved through
> natural processes. 
> So they say, biology had to have been designed. The
> problem, of course, 
> is that the designer itself is an example of an
> irriducibly complex 
> system that the designer itself had to have been
> designed by another 
> designer, and so on. this is an example of an
> infinite recursion. When 
> you point this out to creationists, they tend to go
> bananas on you. 
> 
> The effect is really quite entertaining.