[lbo-talk] The Argument from Design and Polytheism (Was: The "A"lives, apparently

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Dec 14 15:14:44 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Farmelant" <farmelantj at juno.com>


> It would for at least some versions of the AD. Some of the
> most popular versions emphasize the necessity of a
> designer to account for the complexity of the universe
> or at least the complexity of say DNA, as apparently
> Flew does. But if that is the case then it would
> seem likely that a putative designer would be as
> least as complex as the things that he/she/it designed.
> But if we accept that, then by hypothesis it must
> follow that the designer in turn requires still
> another designer to account for its existence
> as a complex entity, and so on, ad infinitum.
> In other words, by Jove, we get ourselves
> into an infinite regress.

Yeah, this is what I had in mind.

-- Luke



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