[lonestar67]

Wrong!

Your arguments are exactly why intelligent design is a must.

Your "science" supposes that these lives are worthless. You provide photos so that the aesthetics can govern our rationality. These are not humans-- but monsters. Therefore, we should allow our human discernment to kill them prior to birth and more importantly fully engage the "moral" task of sorting the strong from the weak.

No aspect of physical deformity or defect can demean the metaphysical commitments of valuing human life. The intellectual war against intelligent design is a war to rationalize human life. Showing us shocking pictures of deformed humanity will not do it.

You are not god nor are any of your rational censorship loving pals. We are endowed by our creator-- even if you don't like our looks.

[Wolfstar]

Lonestar, any discussion that starts with the exclamation "wrong," doesn't have much hope of progressing. I agree with your statement, "No aspect of physical deformity or defect can demean the metaphysical commitments of valuing human life." However, such defects do exist in human life and elsewhere in nature. I'm interested in understanding how intelligent design reconciles that.

As I said above, things that are designed intelligently are efficient. It is terribly inefficient and cruel to start a baby on its way to life only to have no chance for life. Makes no sense from a purely efficient design point of view.

[ClaireSolt]

I think this argument is like blaming DaVinci for every bad print that is made of the Mona Lisa.