So ‘I’ build a nuclear reactor in order to prove what?…
We understand the trajectories of objects in the solar system to be unguided and unplanned (unless you think there are angels pushing them). Was Newton therefore a philosophical naturalist? I don't think so!
Isaac Newton had no trouble offering a design argument, based on scientific evidence, in his greatest scientific publication, Principia. I still don’t see your point.
Ask Hastings. He says that if it's imaginable, you should be able to build it. I think that's the dumbest thing I've read here recently, and you know I'm not inclined to mince words.
Isaac Newton had no trouble offering a design argument, based on scientific evidence, in his greatest scientific publication, Principia. I still don’t see your point.
The trajectories of planets in the solar system are widely acknowledged to be unguided and unplanned. No one has a problem with that. Newton apparently didn't; he worked out the laws of motion that (approximately) govern them. He didn't feel it necessary to include Divine intervention in his physics. So why must we allow for it in evolution?