[extropy-chat] Re: Intelligent Design and Irriducible Complexity

[Christian Weisgerber]

Kurt Schoedel <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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. 

In your dreams.  When I have pointed this out to Christians, they
have just stared at me incomprehendingly as if I had just said
something entirely nonsensical.  God is the Creator, the Source of
all, who just IS.  A question about the origin of God is MEANINGLESS.
This is entirely OBVIOUS.

Considering that even (by US standards) enlightened Christians fail
to grasp the problem there, I don't think this will make the least
impression on whacko creationists.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de