PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intelligent Designer, Intelligent Design, Randomness
25 May 2014
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O: a watch with complex and intricate parts is found on a heath (beach). O2: organisms have even more complex & intricate parts than watches. H2 is favored over h1 according to the likelihood principle. H2 is favored yet again, so we can assume that humans have been created by a master designer, god. If i stumbled on a stone and asked how it came to be there, it would be dif cult to show that the answer, it has lain there forever is absurd. Yet this is not true if the stone were to be a watch . He argues just as the function and complexity of a watch implies a watch-maker, so likewise the function and complexity of the universe implies the existence of a universe-maker. Objection: we never knew the artist capable of making a watch/universe. Objection: the parts of the watch/universe do not work perfectly.
