Refuting the Teleological Argument for God
Channel: Venaloid
Date: 2020-08-10

The teleological argument for the existence of God is hundreds of years old, and, ironically, the basic structure of its refutation is even older. Clearly, this argument is not going away any time soon, but I have yet to see anyone do an exhaustive debunking of it on YouTube, so here it is. 
 
The teleological argument basically says that any honest observer would recognize the design all around us. The problem with this argument, at a fundamental level, is its failure to properly define how it is that we detect design in the first place. In lieu of doing this, all it leaves us with is an argument from ignorance. 

Special thanks to Louigi Verona and Dano Piano for narrating William Paley and David Hume. Check out their pages here: 

Louigi Verona (music and more)
https://louigiverona.com/?page=about

Dano Piano (song covers and live events)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjK3Qk6lmEl--HTQbDqFeHA

Other links and sources: 

The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Kenneth R. Miller Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohd5uqzlwsU 

DEBATE: Matt Dillahunty vs Mike Licona (Was Jesus Raised from the Dead? 2017)
https://youtu.be/IW9w6c2RWmA

Language as it relates to thinking
http://tuftsobserver.org/secret-life-of-language-2/

Is DNA a language?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9039397 

Answering Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument with Dr. Robin Collins and Dr. Josh Rasmussen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Yi2vR7ps4 

Who Designed The Designer? a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion by Dr. William Lane Craig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHp_LWGgGw 

0:00 - The Teleological Argument
2:46 - Specified Complexity
5:48 - Irreducible Complexity
8:35 - How do we detect design? 
14:46 - How do we detect intelligence? 
17:40 - Is DNA language?
19:10 - Is DNA information? 
21:21 - Conclusion

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