"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article , Hawke says...

Whenever I hear anyone using the term "intelligent design" the first
thing
that pops into my head is whose intelligent design. Well, obviously
God's,
right? So what these people are saying is that even though we don't have
any
proof, it just seem right that since the world seems so complicated it
must
have been God who made it. Who else is powerful enough to have done it?
They
can't think of any other explanation so it must have been God that did
it.

I LIKE that approach. OK, I'll bite.

If we're on track with the idea that there have to be root
causes for everything (like the universe) then:

Who made god? There must be a cause behind him. An uber-god?

I suppose you're aware that Bertrand Russell's father asked that question in
school, or maybe of his pastor, when he was a little boy and was being led
down the "first-cause" line of argument -- making himself very unpopular.

--
Ed Huntress