Comments by "SsjC" (@ssjcosty) on "THE GOD DEBATE: AC Grayling vs Rabbi Daniel Rowe | J-TV" video.

Daniel’s arguments simply boil to "but isn't it just incredible how everything exists as it does?", which is the textbook argument from ignorance. Then he talks about how if throwing paint on a wall spelled out "Hello..." then we would think that's designed – but the only reason we would say that is because we recognize the words spelled out as things that we know are usually produced intentionally by people (i.e. designed), but that's not comparable with the natural world at all, because we don't know that a tree, a platypus, a planet or a solar system are things that are intentionally produced or designed – that the whole point that needs to be demonstrated. In short, we recognize sthat something is designed not by its complexity but by comparing it with other things that we know to be designed, and contrasting it with the natural world. But if everything was designed then we wouldn't be able to make that distinction.
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