There can be any number of anomolies that can be discussed, lets just name the Cambrian Explosion as one of the main ones, albeit a very general one. Where would you put the problem of the Cambrian Explosion? A, B, or C? But more importantly, why?
Not sure what you mean by ‘if something happens as a predictable, inevitable consequence of the rules regarding how things behave, it makes little sense to call it a consequence of chance’. All you would have to do is keep going back to the source of the rocks behavior in order to see if it was by chance or design. Are those rules you are talking about designed or by chance? And so on....If you agree that those rules that govern the falling of the rock, and the rock’s existence itself, (and yes, any rules that governed how it came to existence) came about by chance then you hold one side of the dialectic; that is you have a world-view that believes existence is produced through chance. You can’t say I dont believe in that because I believe existence has come about through natural laws, and so on, because in the end you would have come to some kind of conclusion as to whether those laws are by chance or designed.
You cannot escape these two conclusion, you must pick one or the other. If you pick the chance worldview, you are heavilly reliant on evolution to validate your worldview.
Well, we don’t know the exact cause of the Cambrian explosion, but there are a large number of plausible hypotheses, so I’d be hesitant to describe it even as A. I’d be more likely to put it in the same category as the lineage of bats, not known, but not particularly confusing either.
As to whether the laws of nature and so forth come about by chance or design, why would design resolve anything? Did the designer come about by chance or design? It just inserts another complex entity and pushes the question back a step.
If you pick the chance worldview, you are heavilly reliant on evolution to validate your worldview.
No, not at all. Evolution is one aspect of one field of one discipline. One can argue that existence came about by chance (and I’m not comfortable with that term) without referring to evolution at all; there are many other reasons to reject the idea of a designer.
See Desrtopa’s reply, below, regarding chance and design and whether a designer helps here. S/he said it better than I could!
There can be any number of anomolies that can be discussed, lets just name the Cambrian Explosion as one of the main ones, albeit a very general one. Where would you put the problem of the Cambrian Explosion? A, B, or C? But more importantly, why?
Not sure what you mean by ‘if something happens as a predictable, inevitable consequence of the rules regarding how things behave, it makes little sense to call it a consequence of chance’. All you would have to do is keep going back to the source of the rocks behavior in order to see if it was by chance or design. Are those rules you are talking about designed or by chance? And so on....If you agree that those rules that govern the falling of the rock, and the rock’s existence itself, (and yes, any rules that governed how it came to existence) came about by chance then you hold one side of the dialectic; that is you have a world-view that believes existence is produced through chance. You can’t say I dont believe in that because I believe existence has come about through natural laws, and so on, because in the end you would have come to some kind of conclusion as to whether those laws are by chance or designed.
You cannot escape these two conclusion, you must pick one or the other. If you pick the chance worldview, you are heavilly reliant on evolution to validate your worldview.
Well, we don’t know the exact cause of the Cambrian explosion, but there are a large number of plausible hypotheses, so I’d be hesitant to describe it even as A. I’d be more likely to put it in the same category as the lineage of bats, not known, but not particularly confusing either.
As to whether the laws of nature and so forth come about by chance or design, why would design resolve anything? Did the designer come about by chance or design? It just inserts another complex entity and pushes the question back a step.
No, not at all. Evolution is one aspect of one field of one discipline. One can argue that existence came about by chance (and I’m not comfortable with that term) without referring to evolution at all; there are many other reasons to reject the idea of a designer.
See Desrtopa’s reply, below, regarding chance and design and whether a designer helps here. S/he said it better than I could!