Re:Gödel believed in the afterlife. In 4 letters to his moth...
by namaria on Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:29AM
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Flaws are not proof of non intentional emergence vs intentional design. We design flawed systems all the time.
Besides, it would be a very naïve stance to think the universe as it is today was drawn complete and definitively. There are a lot more nuanced and intricate creationist worldviews and they have been espoused in a clear headed way by some of the most fundamental characters in the history of science.
Re:Gödel believed in the afterlife. In 4 letters to his moth...
by ben_w on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:03PM
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It's more the type of pattern in the errors rather than the mere existence of them.
On the other topic, although the mere existence of errors would count against a supposedly all knowing and all powerful designer, that combination is not found in most religions, and not even all versions of Christianity.
I think we can tell the difference between engineered and evolved (but note that simulated evolution is still evolution) — oddities like the path of the recurrent laryngeal nerve are cited as evidence against an intelligent designer, and I expect it isn't the only such oddity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve
> But I really like that the answer to a most ancient question such as "what is life" is building up to something like "it's all nanobots controlled by molecular computers"...
If you've not already watched it, I recommend this video by A Capella Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvxPSQNMGc&t=198s