with life as we know it all stemming from evolution and accident, isn't it odd that ALL animals and humans are so symmetrical? As if someone purposely made them? Evolution must have been the most perfect accident ever, to have so many species be so perfect.
No. Symmetry is a cheap feature.
As if someone purposely made them?
Non sequitur.
Evolution must have been the most perfect accident ever, to have so many species be so perfect.
You have set a very low bar for "perfect".
Here are some actually posted sincere objections to evolutionary biology, taken from chat rooms, e-mails, and the Talk Origins Feedback Archive (original spelling, grammar, etc. left alone, except when necessary to make the quote readable):
1. I know you think you have fossils that proof stuff, but those fossils are all fake, they're made out of tar and stuff, this is fact not theory. They have factories in China mostly making the fossils.
2. If people came from monkeys, why are there still people?
3. If the strata layers were true, the missing links would be the dinosaurs because they came way before other evolutionary stages. But no, we are finding dinosaur bones left and right. We have over 35 kinds of dinosaurs and we have more than one for each. Is that a problem! How long have they been digging now?
4. Then perhaps you can explain how A fish crawled out of the sea and evolved into a mammal with lungs without dying before he evolved. You scientists make up something to explain all of your theories without ANY proof. You are fools living a lie. And being as Satan is the father of lies, he is your master. Turn or Burn boys!
5. Hey, i get so confused when i hear about all this evolution nonsense. was it once upon a time, lifeless matter came to life. became a mything link. then a boy. or was it once upon a time, a lifeless chunk of wood came to life, became a talking puppet, then a boy. please clear up my confusion.
6. DS I'm hoping you won't be like the others and we can have a nice two-way discussion where we each listen to the other persons...... As long as you understand that evolutionists have no proof and just the tail on an amoeba is proof of intelligent design and that's my view and I don't really care to read yours.
7. Evolution? Isn't that what Osama ben Laden believes in? Isn't that what the Taliban teaches in their madroseos? Nice company you keep, terrorist.
8. You have to ask yourself though, why are evolutionists so vile and disgusting and rude and why are scientists like DR Hovin so polite and courteous? [What makes this e-mail ironic is that just a few hours after I opened it I received an unsolicited Instant Message which read in part "You baby-killers make me sick with your slime are poeple bullshit and your jew teachers telling our kids they're nothing but monkeys. I know you're all gonna brn in jew hell but I hope first we round you pigs up and execute you first, slowly and painfully."]
9. Most mammals contain DNA similaities because mammals eat other mammals.
10. How do evolutionists explain the Caribbean Explosion?
Or, as Nietzsche said, when asked to comment upon the general education of his time: "A lot of people who have absolutely no need for the alphabet will just be made miserable when they learn to read."
" isn't it odd that ALL animals and humans are so symmetrical?"
Not really. Symmetry is pretty common in nature. Look at crystallized minerals. Each follows one or another of the laws of symmetry, and they're not even alive.
Symmetry doesn't require intelligent design. It's just a good working way for molecules to assemble themselves.