Re: black holes and intelligent design

From: Daryl McCullough (stevendaryl3016_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: 27 Feb 2005 11:44:51 -0800

cafeinst@msn.com says...
>
>The scientific community seems to believe that black holes indeed
>exist, yet no one has ever seen one. The belief in the existence of
>black holes is inferred from the observed behavior of matter and light
>outside of the locations of the alleged black holes - i.e., the
>observed behavior can only be explained by the existence of a black
>hole; therefore, black holes must exist. See
>http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_obsv.html and
>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050222195319.htm
>
>Yet when it comes to belief in intelligent design, when we see ample
>evidence of an intelligent Creator of life, which is more sophisticated
>than anything that man has ever designed on his own, the scientific
>community decides, instead of using Occam's razor in explaining how
>life came about by inferring the existence of an intelligent Creator,
>to postulate that the sophistication of natural life was caused by
>accident. Yet, this alleged accident has never been reproduced in a
>laboratory. But the scientists still stubbornly believe that this must
>have happened.

The role of scientific explanation is to explain complex phenomena
in terms of simpler causes. Proposing an infinitely complex Creator
to explain anything is a giant step backwards from a scientific
perspective, unless the Creator is composed of simpler atoms and
molecules.

Now, if you want to propose a scientific theory of the creator such
that all the other laws of physics are derivable from them, go ahead.
But I've never seen anybody derive Coulomb's law from the postulate
that God exists. 

--
Daryl McCullough
http://combingthesphere.blogspot.com
Ithaca, NY

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