Michael Finley
Posts: 19
Joined: Mar. 2005
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Granted, all presently known designers are human.
I am intentionally trying to avoid making any presumptions about "intelligent designers" other than that they are intelligent and designers. Both of these properties, it seems to me, have objective criteria independent of their instances in human beings.
Let me make the point using an uncontroversial property, "bipedality." Humans possess the property of bipedality. If I imagine a radically different species from humans that, nonetheless, is bipedal, the criterion for bipedality remains the same. In other words, the criterion for bipedality is species nuetral.
I want to argue that all properties are species neutral, including the properties "intelligence" and "designer."
| Quote | | Really you should be looking for the sorts of similarity expected from designers rather than other possible causes. |
What if the same effects were expected from two different possible causes, say common descent and common design? Concerning the expectation that all organisms share basic structural similarities, both common descent and common design are possible causes.
| Quote | | I don't think that you can do better than stylistic and aesthetic considerations. |
How are style and aesthetics relevant?
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