Argument for Intelligent Design from IC3 Systems

@swamidass

Behe’s Pool Table scenario doesn t seem to allow for IC3 structures… in other words, he seems to be discussing things that can evolve naturally… but at an impossibly fast pace … because God has planned dor their emergence.

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Well, of course in science we can never be sure, so that statement would have to be toned down a bit. Given that change in statement, I still think you have conflated two different situations. We can often confirm how something came about through known processes. What we can’t do is confirm that something couldn’t have come about through known processes just because we can’t confirm that (or how) it did. I believe this is called the fallacy of the excluded middle. Just because we don’t know how it happened, that doesn’t mean goddidit.

What is the moral argument?

I see a line of reasoning there. Fine-tuning and the moral argument (whatever that may be) are presumably arguments for the existence of God. If we show that God exists, that makes ID more plausible as an explanation for whatever you like.

Yeah, they’re pretty much independent concepts.

@James_Liang
I think you should say… more in the realm of Faith!