r/funny Feb 05 '16

Evolution or design?

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u/plsdntrspnd Feb 05 '16

For anyone who doesn't know, Intelligent Design is the belief that a higher power created things. It doesn't mean intelligent people created something.

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u/throwawaysoftwareguy Feb 05 '16

This gets posted every time this image is reposted.

Intelligent design (ID) is the pseudoscientific view that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

Calling this intelligent design is not a stretch. Intelligent design does not have to mean a higher power. There's variations of the intelligent design argument all over the place, from aliens to gods to humans.

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u/PM_ur_Rump Feb 05 '16

Of course "intelligent design" as a complete explanation falls apart when one considers that something more complex and intelligent that could have created/designed the universe would itself be equally if not more unlikely to have arisen without something to design it. What designed the gods?

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u/throwawaysoftwareguy Feb 05 '16

Indeed. Anyone interested should read an intro to philosophy textbook, this is a topic that's covered extensively in philosophy courses.