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Eternal Return? Struggle? Natural Selection? All we appear to understand is that our universe is expanding, and that at one point it will collapse, but this could also change!
There is too a weakness in the analogy between a Clock-Designer and a Universe- Designer. Things do get messy in this area! It is a conceit to turn the Universe-Designer into the image of man, for the Old Testament posits that man was made in the image of God. It is true that this has many interpretations! However, one can argue that there is a similarity between God’s mind and Man’s mind, although God’s is greater. But there is a further problem with the analogy. Just as Human Intelligent Designers sometimes create imperfect things, the Universe-Intelligent-Designer can also create imperfect things. This suggests that both designers lack perfect intelligence to design perfect clocks or universes, thus defeating the analogy and argument. Similarly, just as Human Designers are prone to evil or vice bringing forth chaos, the Universe-Designer can also be prone to malevolent fits bringing forth disorder. In this way, we can argue that a mad clock and universe designer can do evil things with their design, defeating the analogy and argument. Evil Designers such as Milton’s Satan are expected to create a Pandemonium in the Abyss, and destroy all cosmic order and proportion meant for Earth’s Paradise. Lastly, the analogy suggests that things that happen by art also happen by nature, and this argument is vast. Some scientist will argue what form of twisted sadist would create a parasite that blinds millions or a gene that brings excruciating pain? If an intelligent designer lived on Earth, people would crash his windows, a Yiddish expression says. In the end, we cannot prove anything by analogy, for if we stretch it too much, it boomerangs.
There is, too, the problem of who created the Universe-Designer’s intelligence? Given that the Universe-Designer would exhibit great design (Plato’s Demiurge), He would need a Designer who created Him, taking us to an unacceptable regress of causes.
And lastly, is it right to impose a moral category on nature? Can we objectively affirm that chaos is evil and that order is goodness and perfection without entering a labyrinth?
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