One of the arguments common for ID is to point to a few components where it is claimed design is evident or that appear to be "Irreducibly Complex".
That argument has always seemed to be among the weakest imaginable if someone wanted to support or assert a designer.
I realize I'm old, slow and not very well educated, but...
If there is a designer, are the ID folk claiming that the Designer only stepped in and designed a few critters or sub-systems?
If that is the case, is there some reason that the Designer only stepped in to design some pretty much irrelevant and unimportant subsystem such as the bacterial flagellum?
If there is a designer, is there some reason the Designer has turned out only mediocre or even minimal designs, designs just barely good enough to meet minimum standards?
If there is a designer, is there any reason we do not see the same design criteria and practices we see in human designed items as pointed out in
Message 8?
If there is a designer is there some reason the designer was such an Ignorant or Inept Designer that "the designer was too stupid to either take all the great designs and build one critter that incorporated many of them, or even create ONE single critter that was not just a collection of barely good enough to survive traits" as pointed out in
Message 105?
Aslan is not a
Tame Lion
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