Well this seems pretty flawless logic to me. If anyone has spotted any logical fallacies, please leave a comment.
The Argument from Evolution, by Kyle J. Gerkin in his article ‘A Counterclockwise Paley’,
- Organized complexity is the product of conscious design or natural selection.
- Intelligence is an example of organized complexity.
- Thus, intelligence is the product of conscious design or natural selection.
- Intelligent beings are capable of designing intelligence (i.e. computer artificial intelligence programmed by humans).
- However, only one mechanism has been discovered that can produce intelligence without requiring the existence of a prior intelligence. That mechanism is evolution through natural selection.
- Thus, the first intelligence evolved.
- Evolution requires:
- Self replication (heredity) with slightly imperfect copying fidelity (mutation).
- An environment that can favor one replicator over another (competition).
- Time for (a) and (b) to manifest themselves.
- None of the conditions in (7) were present before the existence of the universe.
- Thus, intelligence did not exist prior to the universe.
- Therefore, the universe did not have an intelligent creator.


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