By ignorance I mean absence of knowledge, not stupidity. We know (rather than simply believe) that a human created the arrow head not only because it looks man-made, but because it looks man-made _and_ we have multiple compelling lines of independently verifiable and mutually verifying evidence to support the conclusion, not least of which is that we've seen it done by many people.
It's a logical fallacy to conclude that just because something looks as though it was designed by an intelligence, that in fact it was. You need more & better evidence. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom C > Sent: 26 October 2006 20:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: OT: Snowflake > > No - I see it has attributes that indicate it has a maker or > designer. A > roughly symmetrical chipped piece of flint lying on the > ground is believed > to be an arrowhead. We don't see the aboriginal that crafted > the arrowhead > yet we believe the event occurred. We don't see the designer of our > physical universe, far more complex, and since we can't see > one, we believe > one does not exist. > > That doesn't manifest ignorance? > > > Tom C. > > > That is astonishing. I'm an atheist but it's difficult to look at > that > > photo and not perceive a creator. > > > > Ah, the Argument from Personal Ignorance - "I don't know how that came > to be, therefore God made it". > > Bob > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
