Who Designed the Designer?

Science and Theology News ^ | 2006 | Richard Dawkins

[bnelson44]

Who designed the designer?

The designer. And don't tell me that doesn't make sense to science, since they buy into Quantum Physics just fine.

[atomicpossum]

Or, on the other side of the argument, where did the stuff that formed the Universe come from?

[Texas Eagle]

Design is not a real alternative to chance because it raises an even bigger problem — who designed the designer?

Natural selection is a real solution.

Under natural selection - what does the selecting?

[dread78645]

ping

[Rudder]

Until the designer is objectively measured. the concept of a designer is solely a matter of faith and not science.

[RegulatorCountry]

"And don't tell me that doesn't make sense to science, since they buy into Quantum Physics just fine."

If you're outside of time, there is no "before."

[Texas Eagle]

That’s what natural selection is about. It’s not a sudden all-or-nothing hitting of the jackpot. It’s gradually getting warmer toward the jackpot,

Under natural selection, who or what selects what is considered warmer and what is considered colder? And who or what decides what comprises the jackpot?

[momincombatboots]

Exactly!! Evolution has the same problem. Where did the first subatomic particle of "cosmic soup" come from and the force that "souped" it up. Idiotic. Even laws of physics defy evolution.

[Lauretij2]

"Under natural selection - what does the selecting?"

Basically complex physics and chemical reactions.

[Tex52]

One problem with natural selection being the answer. If you go back far enough and ask the question from where did that originate, you get one of two answers. 1) The uncaused cause or 2) We don't know, but as scientist we will investigate until we get the answer. In other words, they don't have to answer the questions, just put your faith in them. Kind of like all liberal answers: How much money is enough for education. Whatever it takes to educate. How much is that. We'll know when it's enough. How much money to end poverty. Whatever it takes. We'll know when it's enough. Just trust us. Put you faith in man, rather than some God you can't prove. If you ask the wrong questions, you will always get the wrong answers.

[Wolfie]

Who designed the designer? It start with "G", but ya can't say it cuz ya get kicked out of the schools.

[JCEccles]

What existed before the Big Bang?

Since we do not know, I guess the Dover judge needs to declare Big Bang cosmology a fraud and make it unlawful to discuss it.,

[Rudder]

Under natural selection - what does the selecting? Extinction, death, non-viability...the typical hostile forces of the universe.

And Pat Robertson.

[Abcdefg]

mental masturbation

[Texas Eagle]

Basically complex physics and chemical reactions.

Basically complex physics. Just the sort of double-speak and contradiction-in-terms one must resort to to promote the concept of Unintelligent Happenstance.

[M203M4]

Nonononono, don't.

[tpeters]

You bought into Quantum Physics too when you bought a CD player with its laser. You bought it with the transistors in the chip on your computer, or viewed a photo from the scanning tunneling microscope.

There is evidence for Quantum Physics. I have not a yet seen any for a talking snake, or found a nuclear chemical pathway that could take a woman and convert her to Sodium Chloride without blowing a chunk of the earth into space.

[Rudder]

Who designed the designer? It start with "G", but ya can't say it cuz ya get kicked out of the schools.

Who designed God?

[coloradan]

Even laws of physics defy evolution.

You say this as if it were yet another outrage of reason. Except that no one, ever, anywhere, has argued that the laws of physics have evolved, in a process like natural selection.