1. Get out of here, atheists!

Comment #156456 by codexaenir on April 7, 2008 at 3:24 pm

I live in the south side of Chicago, not too far from her office.

She'll be receiving mail from me very very soon.

2. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63204 by codexaenir on August 13, 2007 at 1:35 pm

The obvious answer is that intelligence was behind its design and creation. The universe is infinitely more complicated that the Space Shuttle and must have had a Designer and Creator. So you atheists out there give me a break. Let's get scientific here and conclude that the probability that God exists is very high.

Many things wrong with your argument. First of all, you have yet to claim that order and purpose can't come without a designer. Are the 99 percent of the kinds of life that have existed on this Earth all part of the "grand, perfect design?" What about failed solar systems and natural disasters?

The most fallacious part of the design argument is when the theist claims things they cannot possibly know. The theist claims to know that not only that a supreme supernatural being exists, but that the qualities of the being's design can be carried by analogy to human engineering. David Hume called this an incomplete analogy. For the design argument to carry weight, one needs to experience a variety of different universes to determine whether this one is designed or not.

Having ignored the obvious problem, theists claim, as Hitchens writes, to know "the mind of God."