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Blog - Sunday, July 19, 2009 9:38 - 0 Comments
Refuting Dr. Ross (part 4) – shot through the heart
Over the past few days I have been addressing the arguments and counter arguments presented by Dr. Hugh Ross in his lecture. The second rebuttal Dr. Ross says he received to his argument from design is:
“We wouldn’t be here to observe the universe unless it had the characteristics we see.”
For illustration he quotes a theological philosopher Richard Swinburne, who equates the argument with the following scenario:
We could take everybody in the audience and put them in the chairs in the front row and give them high powered rifles with telescopic sights. And then we can take one remaining individual in the room and put them right by the podium. And then we instruct all of of you to look down your telescopic sights and kill her by putting a bullet through her heart.
Well, she survives the event and look up at all of you in the front row and says “Well of course, I wouldn’t be here to observe all of you unless you all missed.”
Dr. Ross asserts it’s not rational to believe everyone intended to miss, that somebody “purposed” that the individual would be alive. Somebody designed the universe for the observer to make that observation. This, of course, ignores numerous possible explanations.