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To: Teotwawki

In addition to the elegance of the DESIGN of the myriad species and kinds of creatures, e.g., every living creature having the eyes, ears, etc. at the correct end of its body, etc; there being NO, NONE, ZIP, NADA fossil evidence for ANY trial-and-error examples, which evolution would have produced in hoardes in every species, such as birdlike creatures with either NO wings, or only ONE wing, or two wings but diSplaced and inoperable, etc. Such as all pertinent kinds being elegantly designed and streamlined in the optimum direction as birds, fish, etc. all were DESIGNED to be.

But in addition to all that; and I hasten to say I am not an authority on genitalia; but as a farm kid, I learned a few things which reinforce my certainty of God’s sense of humor by some of the ways He designed the genitalia of certain animals’ such as the CORKSCREW PENIS of swine...and the forked penis of raccoons. And obviously the female plumbing of each was DESIGNED to mate with that of the corresponding male, and would not function successfully otherwise.

Dja’ know what God thinks of guys like Hawking? HE THAT SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH; HE SHALL HOLD THEM IN DERISION! And they shall have THEIR part in the lake of fire!


16 posted on 12/29/2011 2:56:15 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

Um...not to burst your bubble, but there is no good evidence that points to design.

Indeed, the point you’re trying to make relies upon a rather massive misrepresentation of evolution that we know today as the crocoduck argument. Evolution is not expected to give us a massive mix-and-match of every possible trait. Instead, small changes to the forms that exist (or the proteins that signal their formation, etc.) give rise to larger changes on an organism.

The existence of eyes at one end, if you will, or symmetry or other such things is a demonstration of evolutionary theory, not of design. Indeed, to date you have no working “theory of design”, because the design argument is at its core a fallacy: an argument by incredulity. It takes the form “Because I can’t conceive of a way this could arise but design, it must be designed” - which, once more, is fallacious. Reality is not limited by your imagination.

To give a further, if minor, example, evolution also provides not only an explanation for why the eyes of the flounder are both on one side of it’s body, those of amphibians are located near the top of their form, and those of predators are situated in a forward-facing manner while those of prey are outward-facing - it also *predicts* these occurrences. Design can barely explain.

As a minor note, I question the morality of anyone who can consider with delight the eternal torture of another.


127 posted on 12/30/2011 12:18:34 PM PST by Muridae
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