Tuesday 27 July 2010

the argument from google streeview

1.Google employs some very intelligent designers
2.Googles very intelligent designers put a lot of thought into google streetview
3.Google streetview blurs peoples faces out because it is recognised how important privacy is
4.therefore an intelligent designer would blur everybodys faces when they step out in public to protct there privacy.
5.therefore the real world is not desinged like the google streetview design committee designed there model of it.
6.therefore god disagrees with some of the best designers in the world
7.therefore christians either need to ask google to remove the face bluring technology from streetview or aknowledge that their sky daddy is an incompetant designer.

13 comments:

MWM said...

omfg, after this post, im seriously considering materialism FOR REAL this time.

johnny said...

OK Mike, i'll humor you.. but only cuz i'm on vacation and it's raining out, so yard work needs to wait.

1. but not omniscient
2. again, not omniscient thought.. google street view does not eliminate the need for UPS.. you still have to go to the real world to ship your packages.
3. oh, so you think privacy is an absolute moral?
4. ya got me there... lol
5. if it were the same design, then there would be no difference-- law of non-contradiction
6. yes, His ways are above our ways. His thoughts are greater than our thoughts.
7. conclusion doesn't follow

This isn't any different than your "pizza tree" argument.

johnny

MWM said...

lol what was the pizza tree argument?

johnny said...

I might be remembering incorrectly, and it might not have been Mike that presented it, but it was something to the effect that God didn't make trees that produced pizza and pizza is a good food so a good God would make pizza trees if He exists.


Sorry Mike, if i remembered it wrong.

johnny

MWM said...

damn, that's some intellectually sophisticated argument.

johnny said...

on the upper left corner of Mike's blog, is a search bar... type in 'pizza tree'

He posted it on Thursday, 13 August 2009.

johnny

MWM said...

lmfaoo that was funny

johnny said...

MWM, would you like the honors of explaining to Mike why his 'streetview' argument and his 'pizza tree' argument are alike?

johnny

MWM said...

hmmmm i dunno maybe cuz he 1) makes crap up about what God should do 2) complain about how God isnt doing that, and then 3) claim he doesn't exist because of that.

a perfect parody on fundy atheism if ya ask me.

johnny said...

ya, pretty close. He assumes to know what's good (despite knowing what God's plan is), and attributes that deviation of (his perception) good as a failing of good.... basically a piss poor version of the problem of evil.

I've pointed out why i don't think he's a parody.
Would you point out why YOU think he's a parody?

johnny

MWM said...

cuz his arguments are just so abysmally appallingly horrible and his character fits so well into the stereotypical caricature of the fundy atheist that it makes it real hard to think he isn't purposely being satirical.

but i dunno, there's some real dumbasses out there. i could be wrong ;)

ive been praying for the sake of intelligent atheists that he IS a parody.

johnny said...

could it be that he is not a parody nor a "dumbass", but rather an atheist who is actually sincerely trying to poke fun at Christian arguments?.. in otherwords, he may just think our arguments are just so retarded that he is having a laugh at what he thinks is our expense.

I've said that i don't think he is a parody, but even if he is, there are people that may think some of his posts hold some water.

So, for the sake of Mike, if he is not a Christian, and for the sake of honest seekers, i personally do not think it wise to make a habit of "shaming" (insulting).

Just like you had lied about being an atheist (pretended), i think it generally sends the wrong message. Don't get me wrong, there are times when that way is the right way, but please learn to use the J.P. Holding garbage at a minimum.

johnny

MWM said...

hmmm sorry if I came across as being a bad guy. and i agree that it's possible mikewright is serious (albeit a small possibility).