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Old 08-04-2003, 06:40 AM   #72 (permalink)
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Brd99boy - what do you like about the teleological argument?

For those that haven't heard of it, it's the "the universe is complicated so there must be a creator, just as a complicated watch must have been made by a watchmaker". Doesn't strike me as particularly strong bearing in mind things like fractals - who would have thought something as beautiful as the Mandelbrot set would have come from something as simple as z -> z*z+c?
Gaunilo's "perfect island" is what we've been discussing for a bit (as "perfect horse", CSflim's interesting "perfect proof for the non-existence of God")
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