"Living things don't need to be designed? Whether they need to or not, do they not appear to be designed? When you look at a human hand, do you ever mistake it for something else? There is a distinct pattern there."
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I read your complete post, Wilson.
You are not really into the thinking part of human life, are you?
This is the most obvious Argument from Design I've seen in a long while.
The human hand only looks designed because you assume it to be designed.
Note: Being shaped by millions of years of evolution could also easily be misconstrued as being "designed" by a conscious entity. People used to think that angels pushed the planets around, too.
If I were designed I'd like to ask the designer a few questions? Why don't I have sonar so I can see the bloody things I walk into every night when I go pee?
Which leads me to my second question: Why couldn't the designer make my bladder big enough to get me through the night without having to get up 2 or 3 times to go piss?
I must say that my "Gaydar" is quite handy at times, at least when I'm in the mood, but that could not possibly have been installed by the designer you are thinking of since teh ghey is sin.
There's plenty of examples of vestigiality in humans (meaning adaptations that have degraded because they are no longer important to survival, for the fundies who know nothing about evilmalution)
- The appendix, as already mentioned
- The tailbone (still used for muscle attachments, which is why it isn't completely gone)
- Ear muscles (everyone has them, few people can actually use them)
- Plica semilunaris (the little pink thing in the corner of your eye, used to be a nictitating membrane or "inner eyelid")
P.S. If I had been the one who designed humans, we'd all have colorful fur that keeps us cool in summer and warm in winter and we'd have hooves instead of feet so we'd never have to wear clothes or shoes. However, such accessories as funny hats and loud jewelry would be OK, and even encouraged.
- JES (who likes being nekkid, is sitting here typing in the nude without even a funny hat for cover, and wishes you all a Merry Christmas or whatever you're celebrating)
Octopuses are really neat. I think their design is more intelligent than the apes', but their development as a civilization was stalled by the fact that fire doesn't work well underwater.
Say JES, would you like to wear an octopus?
There is a distinct pattern of shoddy workmanship and design so lousy that a first year engineering student would be embarrassed to show it.
I wouldn't get your god in to wire a plug, let alone something as complicated as living creature!
Oh, FFS. For someone with little imagination, education and sense, things in nature may APPEAR to be designed, but that doesn't make it so.
About that big, deformed hand, you do realize that the LORD designed tropical filariasis also?
SLAM DUNK on YOU, stupid EVOLUTIONISTS!!!
And before you even start whining about why a "just god" would design parasites - I'm going to do a preemptive strike and invoke the MYSTERIOUS WAYS CLAUSE!
Merry CHRISTmas, you screwball heathens. May the LORD have mercy on your souls before tossing your monkey behinds into the Lake o' Fire.
@BCD Ah yes, the mysterious ways clause. The only way fundies can justify their religion. Blessed Solstice, honey (See the difference? I meant it, you didn't)
"Living things don't need to be designed? Whether they need to or not, do they not appear to be designed? When you look at a human hand, do you ever mistake it for something else? There is a distinct pattern there."
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Of you being a cunt? Yes.
"There is a distinct pattern there."
It's the same pattern in bats, dolphins, teradactyls, birds and elephants. It's almost as if they evolved from a comman ancestor.
You're so right, this one time, I looked at my hand, and I thought it was a computer. But it wasn't, it was just my hand.
So "image recognition" means that every recognized shape is necessarily "designed"?
But one of the many paths of evidence of evolution is indeed morphological. You must be ignorant or blind not to recognize the common patterns. Or in denial.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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