| Frank_kc said: I am really shocked that no faith has the highest percentage. To answer the question about faith, we need to ask our-self one question: What is the purpose of life? are we created only to eat, sleep, work and then die? Is this really what life is about? With no offence to the majority of who voted NO, knowing that most of them are Atheist and the Agnostic, if you found a watch in the middle of a desert. What would you conclude? Would you think that someone dropped this watch? Or would you suppose that the watch came by itself? Of course no sane person would say that the watch just happened to emerge from the sand. All the intricate working parts could not simply develop from the metals that lay buried in the earth. The watch must have a manufacturer. If a watch tells accurate time we expect the manufacturer must be intelligent. Blind chance cannot produce a working watch. |
Did god create everything? If so, then isn't the desert designed as well? Each grain of sand? In the case of a world where EVERYTHING was designed how can we take one object, the watch, and single it out as designed?
In such a world, we can't. We do not recognize things that are designed by their complexity. We can only recognize the watch as designed in a world where other things have not been designed. We recognize the design by contrasting it with what can arise by natural processes. We know that watches are a product of mankind, and we know that in the millions of years of human history that there are no naturally occuring watches, and no process to make them. It is not because the watch is complex (after all there are many uncomplex things that were designed by man, like wooden sticks or modern bananas), it is because of our experiences with watches.
With the universe, how can we determine if it is designed or not? The only way would be to compare it to other universes which we know are not designed. And we have no universes to compare it to, so we simply cannot do so.
