Imagine someone trying to convince you that the Eiffel tower was a product of time and chance and was not built by someone. How long would you entertain the thought that this highly complex object, containing a great number of recognizable patterns could be the product of Nature rather than a construction of Man? 
Similarly, imagine that Mt. Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota was decreeted a Natural wonder. Would you agree that "time and chance" could, possibly, have been their author?
The Complexity argument is based on the ability of human intelligence to separate random or naturalistic patterns from the ones generated by some kind of intelligence (the capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend).
Beside the fact that these projects are widely known and that nobody would question their origin, we are also able to claim that both of them bear the mark of Intelligent Design and are therefore the product of human efforts.
Can we see pattern and design in the human eye? (news.softpedia.com)
one of nature's wonder that functions like a camera... Only much more complex...
it has 12 million photoreceptors
it has 6 muscles that move the ocular sphere with such precision, the eye can follow moving objects
it has 130 photosensitive rods and 7 million color photosensitive cones that turn light into electric signals which are transmitted to the brain
it can only see three basic colors (red, green, mauve) but can detect 10 million hues
is able to create 3-D images together with the brain
All this in a 24 mm-wide ball...
2 comments:
We do live in a complex world and you've only listed one complex example here - the Eye. There is much more to the equation but if you can only see Truth when you dust for it, surely you'll only find it by digging ?
I find the search for Truth quite challenging.
In some of this world's oldest manuscripts the Greek word that is translated truth is a very powerful and meaningful word. It is alethia. The a (alpha) at the beginning of a Greek word often means that it is a negation of the rest of the Greek word. For instance, the English word atheist comes from a-theos which means literally "no god".
In the case of alethia, the literal meaning of this word is "nothing hidden". This means that the phrase found in Ancient Greek writings (specifically those relating to the New Testament) describes God as the Spirit of Truth, literally would be the Spirit who allows nothing to be hidden.
Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words defines this Greek word that is translated as truth as meaning:
"The reality lying at the basis of an appearance, the manifested, veritable essence of a matter."
This definition should inform us that God (if you believe in God) is always working to move us beyond the appearance of a person, a matter or an organization to discover its reality and its essence.
However, the debate about truth is not without it's controversies.
Check here for more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#_note-0
Thanks I appreciate your input. Surely I only used one example. I am interested in hearing what others find "objective" truth to be.
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