A Dormitive Property

Anthony Gottlieb, on Antony Flew"'"s (scare quotes around the genitive clitic) new book, There Is No God:

The pattern of the reasoning is always the same: a phenomenon — be it life, consciousness or the order of nature — is said to be mysterious, and then it is boldly asserted that the only possible explanation for it is “an infinitely intelligent Mind.” It is never said how or why the existence of such a mind constitutes an explanation.

Cf. my parable of the would-be detective for a send-up of this kind of "explanatory" reasoning.

(Via William Edmundson at Leiter Reports.)

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[Australian Atheist]

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Nice touch.