Look, Up in the Sky!
It sounds tautological, I know; but there is utility in the distinction between what we can hope to feed our cognition, and what we can’t. Current ID claims of irreducible complexity attempt to infer a designer of everything, with arguments that boil down to, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The argument is based on an accepted inability of the human mind to completely model and understand how things work. They suggest that “mysterious” is identical to the work of a designer, in one way or another. They use their statement’s lack of falsifiability as a premise to the statement.
Responding to that idea, whether it’s wrapped as a “Christian” or “Intelligent Design” or “independent theistic” tenet, requires stating that it is unreasonable to base conjecture on what is unknowable. If there are things which exist beyond our ability to sense them ourselves or through instrumentation, directly or indirectly, there is nothing on which to base such conjecture. Thus the reference to Occam’s Razor. None of that states that what is known, is all that is knowable. That’s ludicrous, and completely destroys any science, as science is simply a systematic attempt to know more.
Me, via Newsvine
Yes, I’m quoting myself. Yes, I’m that lazy. This is one response to a thread on Newsvine, regarding an article on Creationism and science. The article itself has some interesting points, though it reads as a parroting of other, more developed arguments (I note the precipitous reference to Wikipedia only).
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