From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 13:18:09 EDT
OK, Josh and Richard win the argument. Here's how it goes:
1. The universe appears to be cosmologically fine tuned to develop the
physical/chemical/astronomical/geological support for living organisms to
thrive. That's what it means to say that the universe was intelligently
designed.
2. In spite of all of the partial evidence and plausibility arguments
available to us, we must admit that we do not at the present time know with
complete certainty whether or not the universe was biologically fine tuned
for the evolutionary development of every life form that has ever existed.
It is logically possible, therefore, to posit that at least some life forms,
or parts of life forms (like the rotary motors on the bacteria in my
intestines) could have been assembled only by the non-natural,
form-conferring action of an unidentified, unembodied, choice-making agent.
That's what it means to say that the universe was intelligently designed.
3. Given the positive evidence for cosmological fine tuning, and given the
lack of complete evidence for biological fine tuning, it must be the case
that the universe was intelligently designed.
QED
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