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SavageD
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Message 238 of 396 (617349)
05-27-2011 6:48 PM


Who designed the designer?
"Who designed the ID designer(s)?"
I do not think this is a good question. It'd be better to ask:
Who designed the designer(s)?
Today we can observe, that all designs are less complex than their designers. In just about every case, the design/invention is unaware of whom it was created by, or through what means it arose from.
If this invention happens to have enough intelligence (like humans), some investigation is required before they find out the means through which they came about (eg child asking mother, where did I come from?)....Or they may be simply told the means through which they arose, by some other intelligent agent (eg mother tells child how he was born).
So to answer your question, we simply do not know who designed the designer(s), or even if the designer(s) themselves needed to be designed in the first place. The designer(s) would exist in a higher form than we know of today simply because, designers are always more complex than their creation.
Perhaps they (or it) did not require any point of creation. It's like this, no one claims that nothing existed before time. Creationists say a god existed before time (he required no creation), while atheists say that matter existed before time (as well as the existence of infinite universes)...It all comes down to whose correct.
Both concepts are hard to swallow but when you realize that life & this universe are here either by chance, or through creation (no alternative choice) you are forced to choose between the two views only.
PLZ Note: I do not believe in any specific God, but because I believe that life here is a product of a designer, I also believe that there is a higher form than us.

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SavageD
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Message 240 of 396 (617389)
05-28-2011 11:47 AM
Reply to: Message 239 by Dr Adequate
05-28-2011 12:34 AM


Re: Who designed the designer?
Dr Adequate writes:
You would, then, accept the possibility of complexity without design?
Yes I would accept the possibility of complexity without design, but only when it comes down to 'the first cause' of the universe, as pointed out earlier. The universe required a starting point, whether this starting point was already complex or simple (when it comes down to the 'first cause') is irrelevant.
I've never heard an atheist say that matter existed before time; and the question of how many universes there are would not receive a uniform answer from all atheists; certainly I've never known an atheist with the temerity to assert that the number is necessarily infinite. (It could be, who can say?)
They do not have to say so out rightly but, atheist do believe that matter existed before time.
If the universe began with a bang, your going to have to assume that something banged. Like wise if you assume that there was a universe before this one, your also going to have to assume that matter was already present to create that universe.
After all, nothing could only produce nothing, therefore there had to be something to produce a first cause.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, there is a new theory which suggests that two membranes of other universes made contact with one another to form this universe. If this is the case then two other universes would have had to exist before these two to create other universes, thus making the number of universes infinite.
Yes there is: necessity. For example, when I note that bricks always fall down and not up, I attribute this neither to coincidence nor to the unseen hand of an intelligent being.
I take it that this is your stance as to why you believe that the universe is here by chance...though your own argument works against you.
If you do not attribute the universe to coincidence or creation, then what is your stance? Why couldn't bricks fall up and not down?
When I observe an order universe such as galaxies, planetary seasons, the various laws of physics (gravity for instance) etc which holds together everything we know as the universe, I am forced to believe in a creator.
Edited by 1SavageD1, : No reason given.

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SavageD
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Message 256 of 396 (617469)
05-29-2011 10:13 AM
Reply to: Message 241 by Dr Adequate
05-28-2011 3:59 PM


Re: Who designed the designer?
Dr Adequate writes:
But there is no reason why it should be possible only in that case. Once you have admitted that something complex enough to design the whole universe could exist without having a designer, then I see no basis for denying that that is at least possible also in the case of the things we see around us, all of which are (by your reasoning) less complicated than your hypothetical designer.
I'll have to agree with you on this point.
If you want to know what atheists think, you would do better to ask some atheists instead of making stuff up.
I, for example, am an atheist, and I do not even find the phrase "before time" meaningful.
Hard to see why you would regard the phrase "before time" as meaningless since it's always mentioned when considering the formation of the universe. Time had to have a starting point, so there is a period before & after time.
You know, "matter" is a technical term, it doesn't include everything that has existence. (It would not, for example, include the standard God of the theists.)
You lost me here, are you saying that matter can refer to nothing?
Cause it is my understanding that matter refers to something physical, which would be 'something' than opposed to 'nothing'.
Even if all atheists believed in this collision of universes idea, which I do not because I've barely heard of it, then the deduction that you ascribe to them would not necessarily follow. After all, there is a theory that I was produced by two people having sex, but although I accept this theory I do not deduce from it an infinite number of people.
Really, you should not be so free in ascribing views to atheists. First you make up what we think, then you figure out what you, not we, would deduce from the views that you ascribe to us, and then you generously attribute these deductions to us too.
Fair enough, you do not believe in an infinite number of universes. I guess all atheists do not 'believe' in the same 'theories'.
But I can't help but wonder, which theory do you accept regarding the existence of this universe?
Then you should read it again, since I do not subscribe to that belief (nor deny it) and was explaining why not.
If you do not attribute the universe to coincidence or creation, what is your stance?
The immediate answer to that is that gravity is an attractive and not a repulsive force. As to the cause of this, that too might well be a matter of necessity rather than chance.
lol, I wasn't asking you how gravity functioned...On the other hand, are you saying that gravity is here simply because it was necessary? Why don't you just admit it, your taking the position that everything in this universe is here by chance.
You are not forced to, you choose to. There is no reason either a priori or a posteriori why the reason for the universe should be possessed of a personality.
Of course I chose to, was I Claiming otherwise? as for your last point, I'm not certain where your getting at. My position is simply that this universe was created, what does personality have to do with it?

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SavageD
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Posts: 59
From: Trinbago
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Message 283 of 396 (618115)
06-01-2011 1:15 PM
Reply to: Message 258 by Percy
05-29-2011 10:58 AM


Re: Who designed the designer?
Percy writes:
Hi SavageD,
First let's get the off-topic stuff out of the way. I was going to send you a PM, but since I find myself responding to one of your messages I'll tell you here: My Admin alter ego merged your 1SavageD1 account with your SavageD account. All your SavageD account information was maintained except for the email address and password, which came from the newer 1SavageD1 account.
yep, something seriously went wrong man, first my password had stopped working and message boxes were extremely small so i couldn't respond. none the less i got past those problems...
Theories about multiple universes come from science, not atheism. Some scientists are atheists, some aren't.
There are a number of flavors of theories (hypotheses is a more appropriate term, but it has become common practice to refer to them as theories) of multiple universes, but none have experimental verification and so none are yet accepted within science. But probably most cosmologists believe that something at least somewhat along the lines of one of them must be correct.
I agree. I just worded my sentence in that fashion to play with peoples heads, as some people truly believe that "all" theories should be held as absolute fact....
I think most people of a scientific nature would echo Witgenstein's sentiments: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Never heard of it but, they are indeed words of wisdom.
In other words, the evidence we currently have in hand doesn't tell us which of the many theories of cosmological origins is correct. Or with more brevity, we don't know how the universe came to be.
I agree here also. It is possible that one of the cosmological models may be correct.
How does the question of cosmological origins bear on the question of the origins of the intelligent designer?
In a nutshell: From my point the universe appears to be ordered & because it appears ordered I deduce that a creator must be behind this order. There are galaxies (planets, the moons, gas giants, the suns), planetary seasons, and there is of course the various laws of physics which govern the universe (Gravity for example) and holds everything in place. etc
Not only do I deduce a creator because of ordered universe, but also because there seems to be an underlying system in which things are governed to function (eg. the way planets orbit each other) whether it be on the atomic level or physically observable levels.
There are number of other reasons, but they are way too lengthy & I'm way too lazy & busy. I may be right I maybe wrong, who knows, though it's still fun to argue about.

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