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Dialogue

Mink and Brace’s Accidental Conference On The Design Argument

Mark Piper designs an argument questioning the design argument.

Last winter Sylvia Mink and Edgar Brace arrived in St Louis, Missouri, and took cabs to St Louis University. They had come to attend a conference on the design argument for the existence of God, but there had been unavoidable delays, and they were both running late. They arrived at the same time and ran to the library, looking forward to the warmth and refreshments inside. Instead they found the library locked. Bewildered, they hastily introduced themselves to each other and double-checked the conference details – where, to their shock and embarrassment, they discovered that the conference was actually taking place at St Lawrence University.

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