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Interesting book review from -- of all places -- The New York Times. Here's a sample:
Despite the ingenuity of the neo-creos, the Not Darwinism part of their strategy is pretty clearly a failure. And they have another problem, which might be labeled Not intelligent design. If nature were fashioned by a hands-on Divine Artificer, it ought to exhibit a certain elegance and efficiency. Then what of all the imperfections we see in the biological world? Why are organisms burdened with maladaptive features like the webbed feet of the frigate bird, which does not need them for paddling? Why is our genome littered with nonfunctional junk DNA? Why have 99.99 percent of the species that have ever existed gone extinct -- including the poor dinosaurs, created only to be wiped out by an errant asteroid? As Gould remarks, "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution -- paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce."
Source: Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics.
285 posted on 10/18/2002 10:57:35 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Why is our genome littered with nonfunctional junk DNA?

Another PatrickHenry choice expert!!

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Could it be because it is not junk!!!

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New Yawk Times

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286 posted on 10/18/2002 11:07:45 AM PDT by AndrewC
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To: PatrickHenry
If nature were fashioned by a hands-on Divine Artificer, it ought to exhibit a certain elegance and efficiency.

Is that quote the best you could do? Living things, and indeed the Universe itself shows a high degree of elegance and efficiency. The simplicity of DNA - essentially just 4 codes creating and enabling life is absolutely gorgeous. The laws of the Universe have led many scientists to wonder at the beautiful order of it. It is hard to see how any of the ignorant atheists which do not even understand how life and the Universe works can hurl such criticisms.

359 posted on 10/19/2002 7:59:32 AM PDT by gore3000
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