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Intelligent Design On Another Planet?

by Babu G. Ranganathan

Imagine finding a planet where robots are programmed so that they can make other robots just like themselves from raw materials.

Now, imagine an alien scientist visitor coming to the planet and, after many years of studying these robots, the alien scientist visitor comes to the conclusion that since science can explain how these robots work, operate, function, and reproduce there's no reason to believe that there was an ultimate intelligent designer behind them.

The analogy above certainly is not perfect but it is sufficient to reveal the fallacious thinking of those who attack intelligent design behind life and the universe.

... looks like there is a lot of confusion in the creationists theorists ...
... the assumption of the need of being of a prime principle ...
... does not imply first of all personality and second creation ...
... and neither does intelligence ...
... this can be easily verified by blowing up your yard ...
... you have thereafter only produced a mountain of debris, not "created" it ...
... and the fact that the flowers may grow in spring again ...
... has no relation with producing such mountain of debris ...
... it does not matter how slim chances are ...
... the universe has time available and we don't ...

... the fact that humans are retarded ...
... and can not build perpetual motion ...
... or the fact that we don't understand the universe perpetual motion ...
... does not imply the existence of a creator ...
... it just implies our ignorance ...
... and the fact of stating we know the answers ...
... implies not only ignorance, but also self deception and arrogance ...
... and here we get to religions ...

... if there may be machines building machines ...
... it is because we human need them to relieve our suffering and emptiness ...
... the universe cares less because is not a person ...
... the conclusions are ...
... that humans made god at their own image to pursue a predatory agenda ...
... but the whole reasonings of omnipotence ...
... falls apart if this god did not create the universe ...
... so the art of religion has to speculate on sophism ...
... to support the rest of its criminal and predatory agenda ...

... it would not be convenient for religions to admit ...
... that their omnipotent god is in fact impotent ...
... and that the "real" omnipotent universe ...
... being an "equal opportunity" constructor and destroyer ...
... does not reward or penalize on any merit or in fact any human action ...
... or in fact of any authority nor belief ...
... with no other logic as geometry and degrees of emptiness ...
... the castle of cards of the religious myth would shatter instantly ...

... when we find a building created by aliens on mars ...
... this is the only intelligent design we could talk about ...
... but it would not be gods work, it would be some other species work ...

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