Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Intelligent Design - isn't

One of the truisms of logic and math is that if your presuppositions are wrong so is the rest of the problem. This is one of the reasons that one doesn't have to know math in order to figure out where Intelligent Design goes wrong.

Much is made of the unlikelihood of certain events. But being unlikely is not the same as being impossible. And in a large universe - as is admitted by both sides - there is the likelihood that even events with very small probabilities will happen somewhere. So being unlikely is not a measure of intelligent design. It is a measure of the vast universe.

This is just one of the reasons that one doesn't have to be able to follow the math in intelligent design in order to figure out where it goes wrong.

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