Argument for Intelligent Design from IC3 Systems

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@James_Liang

Apart from IC, what philosophical arguments for design in biology exist?

@swamidass

How this often plays out in conversation is that:

1. ID proponent argues that certain structure very improbable to arise, therefore design.
2. We show how it is actually not impossibly improbable.
3. ID proponent argues now that this just push problem to fine-tuning. therefore design.

We have seen this play on the forums more than once. Most recently with @EricMH. Which makes we wonder if this is a truly absurdist argument. If what ever the likelihood is, then it is design, why even enter into the debate in the first place? Isn’t the design argument much more appropriately expressed as astonishment at the beauty and complexity of life, as we all should be?

I see fine tune as good weak argument. The moral argument is a much stronger argument.