Mr. Harris makes some good points, but I don't see it disproving the possibility of a creator. It's true that between the many different religions, there exist contradictions. It does in fact seem like we're all going to somebody's hell.
However, if you ignore the individual institutions and just look at the question as 'is there a creator or not?’ there is as much evidence supporting this claim as there is refuting it (which is to say: very little). I look at things like the eye, and other complex systems essential to life on our planet and it's easy for me to imagine a sentient hand behind it all.
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Denys Artasevych on February 7, 2008, 11:53 PM
Ive heard the eye argument before. What is it about the eye that points to a creator, it soes not seem to be any more complex then the heart and any other bodily organs.
Marc Parsneau on February 24, 2008, 4:44 PM
The reason that people look at complicated biological structures and assume that it must be designed by a sentient hand is because they do not understand how natural selection works. The thing about structures like the eye is that they WERE designed, but not by a sentient, all knowing creator, but by environmental circumstance over, in most cases, a much longer period of time than many theists seem to be able to completely wrap their minds around.
Also, you’d think if there were a creator smart enough to design the human brain, he’d be able to sort out birth defects and congenital diseases and take out redundant things like appendices and back hair. I can’t imagine that we were designed by a sentient being when I look at things like that or my crooked teeth, unless he’s a total jerk.
When you see something like the eye or any other internal organ , perhaps it reminds you of human mechanical devices that were plainly designed for a specific purpose. Since we humans love our machines and are surrounded by them from the time of birth (whether it be a spear or a spaceship), man-made devices are everyone’s basis of comparison when we start to examine biological structures. But—-aren’t our inventions actually better compared to natural biological structures? Perhaps instead of seeing God in the heart or eye or any other biological device, we should instead be seeing the processes of natural selection expressed in our own mechanical designs.
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