Wondering Wanderean Notes: Objections to Teleology (2 of 4 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

But if one should find sand in the crankcase of an engine or water in the fuel tank, this finding would be no argument against the fact that the engine is the product of intelligent design, and it would not necessarily be an argument against the perfection of the design of the engine, even though these foreign elements might have wrought havoc with the machinery. The Scripture indicates that the so-called imperfections of nature and the evils which plague humanity are due to the injection of sin into a universe which was perfect in its inception. And when astronomers speak of galaxies which are hundreds of billions of light years distant, there is little difference in comprehension of the human intellect between this figure and infinity. It appears that atheistic and agnostic philosophers and scientists, upon finding one-hundredth of the evidence for a fact in the physical world that there is for the existence of God, will avidly accept and pursue that evidence. But because of preformed judgments they will reject much greater evidence concerning Deity on the grounds that the evidence is not one hundred percent complete.