DOES GOD EXIST?THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
There may be good reasons for belief in God, but the
argument from design is not one of them…despite all
appearances to the contrary, there is no watchmaker in
nature beyond the blind forces of physics… Natural selection,
the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially nonrandom
process that Darwin discovered…has no purpose in mind. It
has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the
future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can
be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the
blind watchmaker.
-- Richard Dawkins
IS THERE DESIGN?
Photograph courtesy National ZooIllustration from Freeman & Herron's Evolutionary Analysis, 2nd Edition
NON-DESIGN?
DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE
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DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE
This universe is uniquely adapted to provide for life here on earth. The earth is
perfectly placed and oriented such that life can be sustained.
The physical laws of nature are amazingly precise and mutually dependent on
each other’s precision for that life to be maintained.
Is it statistically likely for all of those things to occur – not just each occur, but
all occur at the same time – by random chance? Or does this mean there’s
“design”?
Dawkins admits, “The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we
can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious
alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.”
DESIGN OF A PROTEIN
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DESIGN OF A PROTEIN
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BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM: DESIGN REQUIRES A DESIGNER
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All of these factors are necessary, working together in the system at the same
time for blood clotting and clot removal to be effective.
Remove any one of these factors and the blood clotting mechanism fails to work.
The theory of this mechanism evolving incrementally was tested in lab mice by
systematically removing each gene responsible for each portion of the blood
clotting mechanism. The results are below:
Lacking Plasminogen
(unable to dissolve clots)
Lacking Fibrinogen
(unable to form clots)
Lacking Both
- Thrombosis
- Ulcers
- High mortality
- No clotting
- Hemorrhage
- Death in pregnancy
- No clotting
- Hemorrhage
- Death in
pregnancy
BLOOD CLOTTING MECHANISM: DESIGN REQUIRES A DESIGNER
Why is it important to show things in biology are irreducibly complex?
If a complex design exists in nature that requires multiple parts working
together to be present at the same time, then it could not be done by
nature alone. It becomes evidence of intelligent design.
And design requires a designer.
Darwin wrote: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ
existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous,
successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break
down.”
No evolutionary scenario can explain how any of these biological features
(some critical to the persistence of life itself) could come about gradually
as a result of a succession of small, random mutations.
IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY
Specific attributes of the universe provide for and sustain life
Precision and accuracy of the protein and cell – the most basic elements of life
Existence of irreducibly complex systems that are vital to life
It is improbable that these things came about with such precision, all at the
same time, for life to exist.
These things had to be designed. And design requires a designer.
The great thing is you only have to provide ONE example of something
designed to require the existence of a designer
EVIDENCE OF DESIGN