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To: PeterPrinciple

The teleological argument, or `watchmaker fallacy’ has been refuted forwards and backwards, but you guys still haul it out and waste our time with it.
Open your own eyes. Name one tenet .....


18 posted on 02/13/2017 10:47:11 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice

The Watchmaker “fallacy” keeps getting brought up because it’s never actually been refuted.

Huxley used a false analogy against Paley, and the tradition has continued ever since.


20 posted on 02/13/2017 10:58:24 AM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: tumblindice

So, yes or no, you are not the most complex thing in the room?

All that complexity happened by chance over time?

You believe spontaneous generation and it’s derivatives are a viable theory?


25 posted on 02/13/2017 11:15:30 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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