djmullen
January 6, 2004, 10:57 PM
I've started a thread titled Is God Designed? (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72837) in the Existence of God(s) forum. I'd like to recommend it to readers in the Evolution/Creation forum because it's a beginning on estimating the likelyhood of a designer/god existing at all.
It seems to me that the creationists basic argument posits God as sort of the default answer. If you can't figure out how something happened, then goddidit.
However, to be capable of doing anything remotely useful, a god has to contain an enormous amount of information, possibly an infinite amount. But according to Dembski, an infinite amount of information makes God infinitely unlikely to exist unless he was designed by an intelligent designer ... who in turn is infinitely unlikely to exist unless he was designed by an intelligent designer ... who in turn ... etc.
Claiming that God merely requires an enormous amount of information instead of an infinite amount doesn't make him that much less unlikely.
I also attempt to answer the old, "God has always existed" dodge to this question.
It seems to me that the creationists basic argument posits God as sort of the default answer. If you can't figure out how something happened, then goddidit.
However, to be capable of doing anything remotely useful, a god has to contain an enormous amount of information, possibly an infinite amount. But according to Dembski, an infinite amount of information makes God infinitely unlikely to exist unless he was designed by an intelligent designer ... who in turn is infinitely unlikely to exist unless he was designed by an intelligent designer ... who in turn ... etc.
Claiming that God merely requires an enormous amount of information instead of an infinite amount doesn't make him that much less unlikely.
I also attempt to answer the old, "God has always existed" dodge to this question.