Bollocks.
As usual, you're attempting to describe people outside your particular
theism as if its doctrinal tenets applied to them.
And your "arguments" include bringing up nonsense where it is
inappropriate, and neither wanted nor needed.
Your particular god called "God" is merely one out of hundreds, if not
thousands, of equally irrelevant beliefs that are only important to
their believers.
You really have to take off your god-blinders and think outside the
barriers your religion has erected around your mind.
>The theist already is convinced, and it requires undeniable facts
>to challenge his faith, he has a "show me" mindset and will "fall
>away". There is the atheist who generally will stand by his views
>regardless of the strength of an argument favoring Gods existence,
>even insisting there is no evidence.
What "strength of an argument favoring Gods existence"?
None has been provided that stands up to the slightest scrutiny. Like
your own neverending question-begging, your own ad hominems based on
amateur-psychologised personal lies, etc.
Just like all the other arguments for all the other god-beliefs out
there that you ignore the way non-Christians would ignore yours if
you had the commonsense and courtesy to keep them where they belong.
>Before Darwin, as most scientist observed phenomena and described
>it and its purpose or function, they saw this as evidence of
>design and design as the manifestation of God,
Because pretty well everybody was raised theist, usually Christian,
and they accepted the then current paradigms because they had no
reason to think otherwise - until they realised these couldn't account
for their observations and results.
Please try to be a little less dishonest next time.
Those who actually did science, revised their beliefs in the light of
their discoveries. Eg Newton became a mechanist, a form of deist who
believed that the god he had been raised believing, set things in
motion and left the universe to run itself according to the laws of
physics he had discovered. And Darwin became an agnostic because he
couldn't reconcile the eat-or-be-eaten cruelty of natural selection
with the benevolent and loving god of his childhood.
> who was the designer.
But not for scientific reasons. Again, please try to be less dishonest
next time.
>In reality many scientific disciplines were founded by Religious
>persons and numerous disciplines by Catholic Priest and clergy.
So frikking what? Everybody was Christian. Those who were successful
scientists stepped aside from their religious beliefs and didn't let
these interfere with their work.
>"Thinking God's thoughts after him". - Johannes Kepler
So?
>Darwin however, observing perhaps much of the same phenomena and
>advanced theory of evolution where what was observed could be
>presented as evidence of his theory.
Absolute bollocks.
His theory was derived from the evidence, imbecile. He didn't come up
with evolution - that was already known among the educated. He found
that what he observed could not be explained within the then
prevailing paradigm, Lamarck's, so he came up with his own which
fitted his observations.
> This has been described as
>"Darwin's greatest discovery Design without a Designer".
Not according to your link...
>
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6336726_Darwin's_greatest_discovery_Design_without_designer
Notice that Ayala put the word "design" in quotes to show that it
wasn't actually design, and also said...
"The theory of evolution conveys chance and necessity, randomness and
determinism, jointly enmeshed in the stuff of life. This was Darwin's
fundamental discovery, that there is a process that is creative,
although not conscious."
>As a consequence of accepting Darwin's theory which became a
>paradigm for most scientists and many non scientists, whatever
Because nothing has been found in more than a century and a half since
it was published, which refutes anything apart from research into a
few details, and pretty well every new discovery has confirmed it.
>they observed; tested; is interpreted within the paradigm "set up"
>by Darwin, consequently this is was interpreted as evidence for evolution.
Your usual bullshit. Darwin's explanation was predictive. It described
what should be found - and it was. And that is how new discoveries are
added to it.
>What this means is that evidence is, in reality, subjective and
>can be interpreted, within the evolution model or the design
>model.
Why do you keep repeating this lie that projects your own way of
thinking, where you plucked design out of your arse and then twisted
the results of scientific research to claim it was evidence for that?
>Recognizing this reality, atheist devised the proposition that
>there _is_ NO design in nature.
Not design per se, the way you mean, liar.
And it's nothing to do with atheism.
Until you come up with a way to determine it, neither atheists,
scientists nor science even give it a thought. Even scientists who are
theists, although they sometimes prostitute their profession when
talking to a religious audience to try and reconcile the two.
But science per se doesn't even give gods a thought, and neither do
atheists - in spite of your lies about us, to us.
>Examples of this contrivance:
What "contrivance", despicable, dishonest, pathetic liar?
> “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance
>of having been designed for a purpose.” - Richard Dawkins
"Appearence", not "is", imbecile.
This is yet another Ron Dean -ism. Are you sure you're not another of
his sock-puppets?
You know perfectly well that when they say this in books for the
layman, it's followed by explanations why it is only apparent, not
actual.
But your context-free quote doesn't say what followed it, or even
where it is from.
A major clue is when a mined quote is inserted into a different
context to make it seem as if a scientist, researcher, etc holds views
which are opposite to what is known about their work.
>Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not
>designed, but rather evolved. - Francis Crick ( Nobel Prize Laureate in
>Physiology and Medicine), "What Mad Pursuit," 1990, p.138.
And they don't even give a thought to design. Whether they are theist
or atheist. If they are the former, they step aside from their beliefs
when they do their work. He wasn't speaking to biologists or even
scientists, this was a book for laymen.
> The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most
>Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich
>Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion. To such
>people, if a heart (or an eye or a bacterial flagellum) looks designed,
>that’s proof enough that it is designed.
But they aren't scientists working in the field.
>
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1535529/posts
>
>After Darwin, we all should feel, deep in our bones, suspicious of the
>very idea of design. The illusion of design is a trap that has caught us
>before, and Darwin should have immunized us by raising our
>consciousness. Would that he had succeeded with all of us. (Richard
>Dawkins, The God Delusion, Kindle Edition, pp. 138-139)
He was talking about creationists and IDiots, ie people like you.
I defy anybody to read Origin and come up with a different
explanation.
For fuck's sake, it has been explained to you over and over again, why
there is no way to determine design. But you keep ignoring this and
repeating your original bullshit as if it makes the obvious objections
disappear. And you resort to lies about its being rejected because of
bias, the objectors are atheists, etc.
>Since, evidence of design implies a designer, it becomes clear
>that the absence of design prospective is imperative. This
Why can't you stop lying?
You know perfectly well that there are two ways to determine design...
1. Having something that wasn't designed for comparison.
2. Knowing enough about a designer already to know what it designed.
But neither work at the designer-of-everything level, because...
1. There is nothing that wasn't designed, for comparison
2. You would first have to demonstrate this designer-of-everything and
show that you know enough about it, to know that it actually _did_
design everything. Which presumes what you are supposed to be
deriving.
I prophesy that you won't address these, this time, either.
And you also know perfectly well that scientists, science and atheists
don't even give it a thought, let alone for the reason you lied about.
>however, is philosophical and for naturalism, absence of design
>is axiomatic.
Another of your lies. There is no reason even to consider it.
> And for the scientific convention, if it's
>purported to be explainable through non-natural means, then it
>is not scientific by definition.
Deliberate distortion.
"Non-natural means" have never been demonstrated. Nothing has ever b
een shown to be "non-natural".
In spite of your pretence, there is no way to determine actual design.
Until somebody provides actual evidence, there is nothing for science
even to consider.
And until them it remains merely the pre-existing religious belief
with the dishonest pretence that it doesn't have to be the god they
previously insisted did it whenthey were creationists.
>But to emphasize this, it is convention and philosophical, there is no
>logical argument, evidence or objective justification or this exclusion.
More bullshit. There is no reason for its inclusion - because it is
plucked out of the collective arses of believers, and nothing points
in that direction.
If it did, science would have gone down that route.