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Mud-to-Mozart Atheology (Or, Who are the real skeptics?)

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I find the “skeptic” claim on the part of Darwinian materialists very interesting and equally illuminating. Darwinists exhibit no skepticism whatsoever about the thesis that physical stuff turned into Mozart by chance. (Don’t try to deny this, Darwinists, that is the essence of your claim. You can try to obfuscate with legion “peer-reviewed scientific papers,” but you’re not going to fool me and many others about what you are actually promoting and advocating.)

I choose Mozart not just because I am a classical concert pianist, but because his existence epitomizes everything that Darwinian theory is totally powerless to explain.

Darwinists, claiming to be skeptics, actually exhibit the antithesis of skepticism — making transparently ludicrous claims and providing a never-ending stream of unsupported extrapolations, based only on wildly imaginative speculation with no empirical support.

How is it that Darwinian atheists are the only ones who get to declare themselves legitimate skeptics? Is mud-to-Mozart-by-chance philosophy the only worldview immune to skeptical inquiry?

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With materialism you have nothing creating everything. With theism you have the necessary first cause already eternally existing, from which everything else comes into existence.
with 'materialism' you can also have a first cause already eternally existing from which everything else comes into existence. There is no rule that says that a universe that was not willfully created has to come from nothing or have a specific start point.DrBot
October 23, 2011
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You have to look at the entire background of an argument. Take unaided materialistic explanations back logically to where they could begin and you get what material.infantacy has explained above. With materialism you have nothing creating everything. With theism you have the necessary first cause already eternally existing, from which everything else comes into existence. Makes a whole lot more sense, such that even some non-theists view it as reasonable. Even Dr. Liddle couldn't get passed the logic of the argument several months back.CannuckianYankee
October 23, 2011
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The skulls from a-n are obviously similar. From Pan troglodytes through homo. The changes in the skulls are less interesting than what was changing inside the skull. The differences in skull variations from a-n are minimal compared to vast differences in the brain represented by skull a, and the brain represented by skull n. It looks like a reasonable account of common ancestory with respect to the skulls, but the changes to the brain are not thoroughly explained simply by mut+sel.junkdnaforlife
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It leaves us with absolutely nothing poofing absolutely everything into existence. So here does that leave us?material.infantacy
October 22, 2011
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Perfect!butifnot
October 22, 2011
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Is mud-to-Mozart-by-chance philosophy the only worldview immune to skeptical inquiry?
I find it equally incredible to believe that an unidentifed designer simply poofed everything into existence. So where does that leave us?paragwinn
October 22, 2011
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This stuff isn't any better than Ken Ham's line he tells to school children, which is that evolution is "goo to you via the zoo". Gimme a break. 1. Evolution isn't a chance process. Natural selection is an anti-chance, nonrandom process. That's why it's called "selection". 2. Evolution is about the evolution of populations and species. The special features of individuals, particularly rare individuals like Mozart, require additional explanation. 3. Evolution gets you to stone-age humans. Most of what is interesting after that is not evolution, it's culture. There was rather a lot of cultural development before you got Mozart. Pretending that "evolution" is supposed to explain stuff like that is just silly. You might as well be annoyed with chemistry for not explaining Mozart. 4. We know evolution happened because we have the fossils which show it happening. The skeletal features of Mozart (and everyone else) have emerged very gradually over millions of years. Click the link, if you're brave enough: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/hominids.html You need to explain these fossil data, not just toss around ignorant invective. Points #1-4 are well-known to anyone who knows a little science, and ignoring them means that you won't be taken seriously by scientists, and you won't deserve to be. Just another creationists with uninformed emotional objections, rather than real ones.NickMatzke_UD
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