Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Deep Design Requires a Mind

The narrator of this almost 8:00 minute video on Mount Rushmore makes an interesting comment. I'm paraphrasing, but he notes that none of the people looking up at the faces of the four presidents would ever conclude that the images they see carved in the stone were the product of the random action of atoms of granite and the effects of erosion.

Yet some, if not many, of those observers believe that they and everyone around them, organisms infinitely more complex than the stone faces they're viewing, are merely the products of blind, impersonal forces.

The faces on the mountain had to be the products of an intelligent architect, they assume, but human beings are the result of chance accidents and natural selection. One has to have an extraordinary amount of faith in blind chance to believe that.

Anyway, here's the video: