[bluejay]

The original quote is in post #101.

I have a question for you guys. What does this quote means?

"Surely, the best way to build a bat's wing is not also the best way to build whale's flipper. Such anatomical peculiarities make no sense if the structures are uniquely engineered and unrelated."

Quite frankly, I interpret it as an attempt to reason that living creatures were not created based on divine design. Please let me know how you would interpret this statment.

[Hunble]

Quite frankly, I interpret it as an attempt to reason that living creatures were not created based on divine design. Please let me know how you would interpret this statment.

Simple, that is from someone with no concept of time.

[Junior]

I interpreted it to mean that whales and bats are related. Honestly, I didn't get "there is no God" out of the quote -- and I'm Catholic. Methinks you're one of those folks who look for offense in anything.

[js1138]

"Surely, the best way to build a bat's wing is not also the best way to build whale's flipper. Such anatomical peculiarities make no sense if the structures are uniquely engineered and unrelated."

Quite frankly, I interpret it as an attempt to reason that living creatures were not created based on divine design. Please let me know how you would interpret this statment.

I interpret it to mean that it is more likely that the structural similarities are the result of common descent than the result of being minted from scratch. The ultimate cause isn't mentioned or inplied.

[Dimensio]

Quite frankly, I interpret it as an attempt to reason that living creatures were not created based on divine design.

I interpret it to mean that if bat wings were specially designed, they were designed by an incompetent designer. I don't see any implication that no gods exist. You seem to be limiting the notion of "god", requiring that if a god exists, it must follow that this god specifically and individually designed each life form on the planet, thus if someone even suggests that each life form was not individually and specially created, the are effectively saying that no gods exist. Apparently the problem is in definitions, because I'm intelligent enough to realise that there are far broader definitions for "god" than what you have posited, thus ruling out special creation for each species on earth is not the same as ruling out "gods" in general.