Sunday, April 20, 2008

Intelligent design thought exercize, part 2

We have a drinking glass. "Obviously" created by a deliberate act of an intelligence, namely, Man. I take this glass to the top of high building, hold it out over the edge, and let it go.

Does the theory of Intelligent Design make any predictions about what will happen?

Does anyone reading this doubt that the glass will shatter to bits? How do you know this? Will the pieces be in any kind of order?

Who is responsible for the resulting arrangement of shards, glass powder, and concrete chips?

I'll drop the watch from Part One over the edge, too.

Now what do we have? "Natural Forces" which, according to Intelligent Design, were ordained by God, have been allowed to act freely on these objects.

Is God's design to reduce everything to Chaos?

Dropping these objects from a height was a deliberate act of Man. To what degree is the chaotic result of the action God's work, and to what degree it is Man's?

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