But just imagine applying the Intelligent Design theory here. One can say that the person who bought the cup (you) has very cleverly bought the perfect cup, made with perfect ingredients; then stumbled just the perfect way to make the glass fall in the perfect angle at a perfect location of the floor, that resulted in that particularly shaped broken piece of glass.
Clearly, there are so many “perfect”s here. So there you go — you are an intelligent broken-piece-of-glass designer.
But at no level are scientific predictions absolutely precise. The reason being is that every event has a certain degree of unpredictability. — Rich
There has to have been a cup for the broken pieces to have existed in the first place. — Wayfarer
'The precision of the Universe doesn’t guarantee that it was not created by an accident.'
The idea of anything being 'created by accident' is self-contradictory. Certainly it might not have been caused by anything, it might 'just be', but the use of the term 'created by' implies 'a creative act'. — Wayfarer
What does that have to do with her argument? — Terrapin Station
Also, it's clear that she's using "accident" to refer to a lack of intention. — Terrapin Station
As an 'argument against design' it fails, because a cup is a designed artefact, and there can be no broken cup without there having been a cup, which requires a designer. — Wayfarer
As an 'argument against design' it fails, because a cup is a designed artefact, and there can be no broken cup without there having been a cup, which requires a designer. — Wayfarer
'Created by accident' clearly implies intention, a mistake. — Wayfarer
A rock formation is not something that can be 'broken'; whatever shape it is in, can be explained purely in terms of geology. A rock formation could never be 'accidentally broken' in nature. — Wayfarer
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