[Logophile]

Brilliant as the design of the eye is, it betrays its origin with a tell-tale flaw: the retina is inside out. The nerve fibers that carry the signals from the eye's rods and cones (which sense light and color) lie on top of them, and have to plunge through a large hole in the retina to get to the brain, creating the blind spot. No intelligent designer would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

Here in Dennet's article is an excellent example of bad science. I have no objection to his saying that the eye includes what he considers to be a design flaw. But from that he jumps to the conclusion that "no intelligent designer" would have designed it that way. Hence there could have been no intelligent designer; the entire process was "mindless."

[WildTurkey]

Here in Dennet's article is an excellent example of bad science.

It is NOT science. That is philosophy. Of course that is the heart of the whole problem, so many confusing the philosophy of religion with science.