Unintelligent design (recurrent laryngeal nerve)

I have a friend named Atlas. And this may be hards to believe, but even with a name like that, he is totally unable to shoulder the world. I've not experienced kissing a girl yet. I hope that when I finally do I don't mistake her for a ghost and run screaming out of the room. No one here says they aren't different. But I.D. is the natural son of Creationism. Born of its mother's womb, yet taught at its mother's breast to deny its parentage so that it might, like Moses, come to age amongst the scribes. Another trait it shares with cow pies. We do not feel emotions in our bodies our bodies feel the hormones released per order of the emotional brain. Do you think Christopher Reeve became emotionless after his accident? Ya' think maybe the Vulcans could have just rigged the binding on their kids ski boots instead of doing all of that intensive mind training? You lose your license and go to jail.Edited by lyx2no, : Typo.

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It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.

And after reading your posts I will go ahead and agree you're tapped.I think we're done here.

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It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.

How about because it's bloody obvious. The nerve can be likened to an extension cord running all around the house to plug in a lamp that is sitting right next to an outlet. What does one have to know to realize that that is not a good idea? What could possibly be the advantage? Just plugged the lamp directly into the outlet? Yes, we can. Our idiocy is not complete either.There is nothing difficult about it. The nerve is connected on this end, and it's connected on that end with nothing in between and insulated from one end to the other. We can see it's not connected to anything.How far down the stupidity trail are you willing to go to protect your silly little bias, all the while accusing everyone else of being blinded by their paradigm?

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It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.

You are, of course, right. But that he isn't an idiot makes the idiocy all the more bitter a pill.

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Hey tis--strange. Still working on the twins thread.

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It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.

Do you really need to resort to this kind of silliness. What is gained by posing the question? Be it known that I can not affirm that you are not Ronald Wilson Reagan.But wait, that's all wrong isn't it. I can affirm that you are not Ronnie to anyone who isn't nuts. The evidence for such a claim is more then adequate to even vaguely reasonable people. Partially because for you to be Ronnie would be fraught with difficulties. Think of all the tight-lipped folks who would have to be involved in such an deception.For this nerve to have a function based upon it circuitous route it would have to function unlike any other nerve. It would somehow have had to developed the ability of transmitting signals through its myelin sheath. Something that would be seriously deleterious to its known function. And it would have to do so without leaving a trace of its actions.Or do you suggest it is not a usual function of a nerve, signal transmission, but possibly a mechanical function, like keeping a finger on a turn so a pal can finish a knot? Are you waiting on bated breath that someday, somewhere a baby will be born without one. Then out comes the Doctor saying, "Bummer news, Mister Jones. Your baby was born without a recurrent laryngeal nerve and all his guts fell out. Nothing to be done I'm afraid but tell sleveque that he was right all along."You have no reason to believe that there is a function to going the long way round the bush. You have reason to believe that the are disadvantages to going the long we round he bush. How do you conclude from this that there is a hidden function of going the long way round the bush?Well, it doesn't really matter what you make up because it is just a fall back into the same game you seem to play in every circumstance: We don't know everything so we can pretend we know nothing. Solution of the gaps, as it were.

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It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.

And giraffes don't have to compete with every other herbivore, which is good.I'm betting if you'd just look up the meanings of the words "good" and "bad" this whole RLN as good design argument would evaporate.

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"Mom! Ban Ki-moon made a non-binding resolution at me." Mohmoud Ahmadinejad

Which means, under the present circumstances, that there can be no evidence of design. Have you ceded your argument?Edited by lyx2no, : Qualifyer.

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"Mom! Ban Ki-moon made a non-binding resolution at me." Mohmoud Ahmadinejad

Sorry, Big_A. I edited my statement to qualify it before I saw your response. I'll explain: God could give evidence of design if he so choose. He could add a label for example. He either choose not to or he didn't design. As God can design any way he wants, we have no way of knowing which. A mangled (why mangled?) car would be evidence for design. That is because cars have no method of developing without assistance. That is not true of mangled cats. It is your insistence that cats have no method of developing without assistance that you were attempting to supply evidence for. I thing you're losing the drift of your own argument.

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"Mom! Ban Ki-moon made a non-binding resolution at me." Mohmoud Ahmadinejad