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Ep 6 "Creation" Ch.4, Part 1

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The Evolution of Inorganic Materials

Some aspects of the world appear to have been designed, but they were not designed by humans. The argument from design has been used for millennia as one of the classic proofs of the existence of god. Since design requires a designer, there must therefore be a god and so on. But this is a bad explanation because it does not address how the knowledge of such designs could possibly have been created. And i shall discuss the evolution of such ideas and institutions. Chapter fifteeni'm skipping quite a bit now. There's a long section on spontaneous generation which was the attempt early on by people to try and explain how it is that biological organisms arose out of non living material. Should say, we don

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