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Note this on Ayala debunking intelligent design, in a recent San Francisco Chronicle story:

"The most sustained criticism of intelligent-design theory comes from Francisco J. Ayala, a widely respected evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Irvine. Ayala refused to come to Berkeley in 1991 to debate Johnson when "Darwin on Trial" was published, a refusal that still rankles Johnson.

"Ayala says that Johnson's argument that a superior being designed human organs and other parts of the anatomy amounts to blasphemy. "If our organs have been designed by somebody, that person was very clumsy, outright stupid, and much worse than any human engineer," says Ayala.

"Take the human jaw. The jaw is simply too small for all our teeth, Ayala notes. The reason is that 2 million years ago, through natural selection, our brains started to become larger. The head grew -- and something had to give because the birth canal is not big enough to allow a larger head to pass through. So, again through natural selection, the human jaw became smaller. The larger brain has also made childbirth extremely painful.

"Millions of babies continue to die as a result of the mother's birth canal not being big enough for the head. What engineer would do such a lousy job? I would not want to do anything with a God who would design things so badly," Ayala says. ""

The story's at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/21/IN214026.DTL

1 posted on 05/09/2002 3:18:42 PM PDT by laureldrive
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"Millions of babies continue to die as a result of the mother's birth canal not being big enough for the head. What engineer would do such a lousy job? I would not want to do anything with a God who would design things so badly," Ayala says. ""

It was Adam and Eve's fault that the whole difficulty in child birth thing came about, duh!

118 posted on 05/10/2002 8:33:54 AM PDT by biblewonk
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God's design is perfect. And this nitwit will soon learn that in a place prepared for the father of lies and his angels (hell).
136 posted on 05/10/2002 9:24:56 PM PDT by RickyJ
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"I would not want to do anything with a God who would design things so badly"

More evidence for a design that is more intelligent than anyone can ever comprehend scientifically, I suppose.

137 posted on 05/10/2002 9:27:05 PM PDT by apochromat
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