No.
Because the machines that the analogy is based on are all created by people, with specific purposes in mind. If it’s useful to imagine the universe as being like a giant machine, then why not take the analogy to its logical conclusion, and imagine that the machine was created and is being operated with some specific purposes in some mind?
because you are confusing necessary with sufficient conditions. Even if we bite the bullet that the universe is a machine, however we define that.
if agents with purpose create machines, that does not entail that machines can only be created by agents with purpose. That is the mother of all fallacies in natural theology.
But even ignoring the logical flaw, I could make an argument that I am myself a machine, unless you beg the question that I am not. And there is nothing that speaks against machines with purpose. After all, my brain was the product of some process that seems quite mechanical.
ergo, your argument would become: since machines are created by machines, and the universe is a giant machine, then it might have been created by a machine, too.
the burden is now on you to show us that the creator, or anyone else that created machines, is not a machine itself, without begging the question. Good luck with that.
so, your conclusion does not obtain. And this because of two mutually independent defeaters.
Enough to adios it, I am afraid.
ciao
- viole
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