Scientific criticisms of the Design argument
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- Created on: 12-12-12 16:58
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- Scientific criticisms
- Swinburne
- Simplest explanation doesn't make it the best
- As science develops it may discover how and why evolution and the big bang started
- Swinburnes argument is 'God of the Gaps'
- As science develops it may discover how and why evolution and the big bang started
- How ordered is the world?
- Black holes are examples of chaos
- Order isn't suprising
- If there wasn't order we wouldn't be here
- Simplest explanation doesn't make it the best
- Design argument
- Richard Dawkins
- Natural selection is a better alternative explanation
- Self-contained and self-explanatory
- Design
- Is an illusion
- Creatures adapted to their environments, they wern't designed to fit
- Creatures adapted to their environments, they wern't designed to fit
- Is an illusion
- Order and purpose
- Only purpose of something is to survive
- DNA replication
- Only purpose of something is to survive
- Natural selection is a better alternative explanation
- Charles Darwin
- Order and pupose is the result of natural selection not God
- Evolution creates new species, they aren't designed by a creator
- Richard Dawkins
- Swinburne
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