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dreamer_easy) wrote2005-10-05 10:56 am
dreamer_easy) wrote2005-10-05 10:56 am
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A great Usenet posting on Intelligent Design, by bearded net.god Kent Paul Dolan:
...All the "evidence" you claim to have has no bearing on supporting "intelligent design", and the evidence against it is all too overwhelming.
No I.D. proponent can give any satisfactory I.D. "explanation" for the _vestigal_ components of living creatures, like the human appendix, like mammal males' nipples, like the legbones of whales, all of which would condemn an "Intelligent Designer" as an "Unintelligent OmniBumbler", but which make perfect sense seen from the vantage point of evolution, where they are the remnant "errors" of the "trial and error" approach Darwin documents.
Nor can they explain why the human eye, for example, has its blood vessels on the wrong side of the retina, while the squid's eye got it correct, or why the Panda is stuck with a "thumb" which is just a wrist bone flange, while lots of other creatures have perfectly functional thumbs.
...All the "evidence" you claim to have has no bearing on supporting "intelligent design", and the evidence against it is all too overwhelming.
No I.D. proponent can give any satisfactory I.D. "explanation" for the _vestigal_ components of living creatures, like the human appendix, like mammal males' nipples, like the legbones of whales, all of which would condemn an "Intelligent Designer" as an "Unintelligent OmniBumbler", but which make perfect sense seen from the vantage point of evolution, where they are the remnant "errors" of the "trial and error" approach Darwin documents.
Nor can they explain why the human eye, for example, has its blood vessels on the wrong side of the retina, while the squid's eye got it correct, or why the Panda is stuck with a "thumb" which is just a wrist bone flange, while lots of other creatures have perfectly functional thumbs.