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Of all the atheist rebuttals to arguments for the existence of God, none tickle my funny bone more than the ones that try to answer the teleological argument, i.e., the fine-tuning/specified complexity line of reasoning. Almost all want you to pay no attention to the Man behind the curtain.
For example, in his book The Blind Watchmaker, Dr. Richard Dawkins says: “The living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning … Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” Dr. Francis Crick beats the same drum when he states: “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”
Christian apologist and mathematician Dr. John Lennox highlights the [sad] humor in statements like these when he writes in his book God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?:
“Is it not to be wondered at that our archaeologist immediately infers intelligent origin when faced with a few simple scratches whereas some scientists, when faced with the 3.5 billion letter sequence of the human genome, inform us that it is to be explained solely in terms of chance and necessity?”
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For example, in his book The Blind Watchmaker, Dr. Richard Dawkins says: “The living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning … Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” Dr. Francis Crick beats the same drum when he states: “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”
Christian apologist and mathematician Dr. John Lennox highlights the [sad] humor in statements like these when he writes in his book God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?:
“Is it not to be wondered at that our archaeologist immediately infers intelligent origin when faced with a few simple scratches whereas some scientists, when faced with the 3.5 billion letter sequence of the human genome, inform us that it is to be explained solely in terms of chance and necessity?”
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Uh-oh. The majority of physicists say a fine-tuned universe is a fact
Since I ve been doing apologetics for a while, I thought I d heard every crash-and-burn statement atheists could make where the fine-tuning argument is concerned Turns out I was wrong
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