george murphy wrote:
> If they say, "No, C-12 atoms aren't intelligently designed" then they are
> saying that God (the Intelligent Designer) didn't plan for C-12 atoms but they
> just happened. This would be to surrender the doctrine of creation. If they
> answer "Yes, they are intelligently designed" then they have intelligently
> designed systems whose assembly can be explained (triple alpha process) in terms
> of known physical entities & interactions without any reference to the
> Intelligent Designer.
> Such a scientific explanation has to take for granted the relative
> strengths of the strong & EM interactions which in fact have to be "tuned" rather
> precisely to allow C-12 to form but not immediately burn through to O-16. That
> is one of the anthropic "coincidences" which can be used to argue for overall
> cosmic design. But that's not the level of design IDers want.
> In other words, it seems as if IDers answer either way, the game is up.
> & of course that means (unless one wants to invoke a non-Aristotelian logic) that
> the game is up whether they answer or not.
MY thoughts exactly!
Jon
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