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Argument from Design FallacyArgument from design is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma. Whenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. There is no reason to trust either logic or math without Divine revelation. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Argument from Design Fallacy occurs when the only argument that something is designed (think of the space shuttle) is that it looks designed. Agrippa's Trilemma is an obvious problem. We can only have pragmatic answers without Divine revelation. Therefore, we can't really know if something is designed just because it looks designed. We can only guess that it might be. This is why the argument from design is a fallacy, whether looking at the space shuttle, a Jaguar, or the Creation. It is a fallacy in this sense: just because the space shuttle looks designed, we cannot say absolutely that it is designed based on how it looks. Perhaps it fell together by chance. However, we have other evidence. We have the testimony of the designers. In the same way, the reason we know that God created the Heavens and the Earth in six days is because we know the Creator God. We know Jesus Christ. And those who won’t acknowledge Jesus Christ are without excuse because the Creator God has revealed Himself to them through the things that He created. They just refuse to acknowledge Him as He speaks to them through the Creation. Examples of the Argument from Design Fallacy
This is not how we know that God created the Heavens and the Earth in six days. We know because God reveals Himself through the Creation. He also reveals Himself through the Bible. He reveals to us that the Bible is His Word without error. He also speaks to us through the Bible about the history of the Universe. This is so much the case that those who deny it are without excuse. God knows their innermost minds and reveals that they do so because they love darkness rather than light.
We have other ways of knowing this. We can go to the car manufacturers and watch them being built. We have the personal testimonies of others who were alive when the older cars were built that those cars were built by human beings as well.
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