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To: xzins

Oh, it was a video on how one part of the body takes a more disadvantageous course of development in a certain species, even though a more efficient design would have been possible. The argument being that the convoluted development arose out of the fact that the body part served a different purpose than what it does now.


709 posted on 01/22/2011 7:11:08 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: xzins; James C. Bennett
The video discusses the large nerve which comes from the brain of a giraffe being dissected (the longest neck Dawkins could find, presumeably). This Vegas nerve comes from the brain, down the neck to the heart region, then branches and goes back up the neck to the voice box.

As I tried to state with my post #625, there is a hidden agenda in Dawkins addressing the nerve in question and the process whereby this nerve takes a circuitous route from the brain down to the region of the heart then back up to the voice box. Dawkins tried to assert as axiomatic that which he wanted to refute ... he framed the issue as 'if there were really a designer, he would have been more likely to start over eons ago when the evolutionary development went beyond the fish-like predecessors of mammals.

In other words, Dawkins defines the 'designer' the way he can refute the designer using his flawed reasoning on the 'units' designed. Presuming to know what is the best design methodology for a universe blossoming life, Dawkins then seeks to convince his audience that the designer Dawkins has assumed would not be blooming the variety of life we have as evidence of a designer ... therefore, in Dawkins' nihilistic mind, there is no designer because the designer Dawkins defines is not evidenced by the units of record.

712 posted on 01/22/2011 8:55:13 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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