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cavediver
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Message 1 of 50 (478034)
08-11-2008 7:19 AM


He's either an idiot, or for a deity, remarkably hard-up when it comes to paying for design plans. He uses the same basic body plan for fish, quadrupeds, bipeds, birds, etc. Why should us bipeds have to put up with a skeletel structure that designed for walking on all fours? Did God force us into second-hand body-plans post-fall, just so that we could enjoy the delights of back-pain?
Why do we have sub-optimal eye design, especially compared to the octopus? Why do we have such stupid "programming" restrictions in the articulation of our arms? Did we not itch in that impossible-to-reach spot on our backs, pre-fall? Why are our genitals so exposed to damage?
Why do we hurt, damage and even kill ourselves when we fall over? Was the ground softer pre-fall? Why do our bones break, limbs dislocate, etc? Why do we need to eat? Why do we need to breathe?
If you can point out to me the guy responsible for all of this, I will not bow down and worship... I will laugh becasue he has made one hell of a joke. As an exercise in what physical laws can produce, the human life is a stroke of genius. As an exanmple of what a deity can spontaneously 'create', it's pathetic...
(Misc Topics in C/E)
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cavediver
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Message 5 of 50 (478107)
08-12-2008 4:06 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Blue Jay
08-11-2008 7:53 PM


Re: The Designer's Purpose
Hi Bluejay,
The natural response from the religious is that the Designer's point wasn't to make an optimal Creation, but to make a creation that was suitable for testing His children for their eternal destinations.
Possibly for some 'religious' this is true (I'm guessing Islam, your own Mormonism, etc.) but it is not mainstream Christian doctrine, where creation was good/perfect, and hardship is the result of the fall.

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cavediver
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Message 8 of 50 (478120)
08-12-2008 9:01 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Buzsaw
08-12-2008 8:29 AM


Re: Unappreciative Blasphemy Thread
Perhaps if you suddenly lost all your fingernails or your fingers
If I were the designer, it wouldn't be possible to lose fingernails, nor have those ever so delicate fingers break so damn easily.
Then perhaps if after loosing your fingers you lost your elbows or the cartilage in your elbows
If I were the designer, you wouldn't have joints with such a pathetic mumber of degrees of freedom. And they certainly wouldn't need to use cartilage.
Perhaps if you suddenly became colorblind, blurry visioned, or blind
If I were the designer, there would be no such things as blurry vision, colourblindness, nor indeed blindness. And your eyes would see a damn site better than they do now, and would have a much greater range of frequency reception.
Perhaps if you suddenly lost the ability to produce tears or lost your eye lashes and then the eyelids
If I were the designer, you wouldn't need any of those protection mechanisms we have for our appallingly delicate eyes.
Perhaps if you suddenly lost all of your toes, then the legs
Why the hell can I not fly??? If I were the designer, you would be soaring with the birds. The designer has taunted us with that one for millenia.
Perhaps if you suddenly lost the ability of recall in your brain
To some extent, I already have. And it pisses me off. If I were the designer, you would never need worry about such things, nor any degenerative affliction.
Perhaps if your body suddenly lost the ability to coagulate blood
And if I were the designer, you would never have the need for your blood to coagulate. Actually, you wouldn't need blood.
These are just a few of the masterfully designed properties of body and mind which I praise, honor, glorify and thank Jehovah, creator, for
And these are just a few of the areas where I could do a hell of a lot better. Unless, that is, I was constrained within a physical/evolutionary framework...
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cavediver
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Message 15 of 50 (478142)
08-12-2008 12:00 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by LucyTheApe
08-12-2008 11:49 AM


If I was an Intelligent Designer and could make a living thinking person with the ability to be ungrateful, recalcitrant and blasphemous, I'd probably also give him the gift of self determination.
And if I were an Intelligent Designer and could make a living thinking person, I'd make such a good job of it that they would not choose to be ungrateful, recalcitrant and blasphemous

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cavediver
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Message 18 of 50 (478147)
08-12-2008 12:11 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
08-12-2008 12:01 PM


Re: Blasphemy
Blasphemers, Thank Jehovah, god, god of mercy and slow to anger...
Buz - for too long have I heard here at EvC about how this great design so obviously apparent in the Universe is evidence for a designer. I'm just pointing out that if this designer had carte blanche and our physical selves are what he came up with, then he made a really crap job. There is no blasphemy there - it is just coming to conclusions via the evidence. Now, if I wanted to blaspheme, I'd say something like...
quote:
all I said was that bit of fish was good enough for Jehovah...
ABE
Programmed robots, even, incapable of choice.
Sorry, just saving posts.
Why does not having a crap design imply incapable of choice? In fact, it's the other way zaround. The designer made us up out of the physical laws of this Universe - which to all intents seems to rob us of free choice. If I were the designer, I'd simply make everyone out of magic, and simply give them free chocie. I think he missed trick there...
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cavediver
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Message 20 of 50 (478152)
08-12-2008 12:18 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by LucyTheApe
08-12-2008 12:13 PM


Re: A paranoid Designer!
A paranoid Intelligent Designer!
Sorry, I don't follow. Why would actually taking care to make a great creation imply that the ID was paranoid?

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cavediver
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Message 24 of 50 (478165)
08-12-2008 1:57 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by LucyTheApe
08-12-2008 1:16 PM


Re: A paranoid Designer!
Why, as an all knowing designer, would you be afraid of making humans with all their failings (each have their own)? Afraid of rebellion? ungratefulness? blasphemy?
No, you've completely lost me here. You seem to be saying that God proves that he is not afraid of making substandard humans by making substandard humans. Is that why we have so many hideous birth defects - it's just God proving that he's not afraid to do such things?

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cavediver
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Message 27 of 50 (478175)
08-12-2008 3:27 PM
Reply to: Message 25 by LucyTheApe
08-12-2008 2:36 PM


Re: A paranoid Designer!
No, I'm asking you why you, if you were an Intelligent Designer, would be afraid of making every human imperfect?
Me? I would not be afraid of anything... I would just not deliberately choose to make my creatures with such idiotic body plans.

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cavediver
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Message 29 of 50 (478185)
08-12-2008 6:05 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by Percy
08-12-2008 5:19 PM


Re: How I See It
What the IDists have is an idea, a hypothesis. But instead of submitting their hypothesis to science and the scientific method they instead insist to the public at large that it is valid scientific theory being suppressed by a paranoid scientific community intent on protecting the dogma of evolution at all costs. Unfortunately, the public at large loves conspiracy theories.
I think the true ID'ists are few and far between... the vast majority fall straight into the Pandas and People category, and it is they plus the good old vanilla YECs that I am addressing. They may mumble on about information and DNA codes, but it doesn't take much reading between the lines (and usually, just reading the lines) to see the creation aspect hiding behind - if in doubt, just hammer them down on when humans first appeared. I would hazard that this goes for most of our recent ID/YEC crowd here.
True ID, of the Salty and Behe mold, are most definitely scientific - pretty much falsified - but scientific non-the-less. I'm not addressing space-alien designers, pan-dimensional children playing with their toys, scientists creating universes in test tubes, nor whomever it was that made us look just like Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons, etc.
Perhaps I should change my title to "Why is the creator such an idiot?" - I was going for that but I was afraid of the taunts of "blasphemy"

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cavediver
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Message 42 of 50 (478235)
08-13-2008 3:48 AM
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08-12-2008 10:42 PM


Re: The Biblically Designed Human
The Biblical designer designed the human body and soul to live forever. The Genesis fall lowered the physical phase of that to several hundred years. The post flood atmosphere then lowered that to an average of 70.
Buz - pre-fall, what would have happened in adam had fallen out of a tree? From 100ft high? Or simply tripped over and landed on a sharp protruding stick? What stopped him choking on his fruit? Were his eyes actually well-designed at this stage, without a blind-spot? Did he get back-ache? And if he took a knife, and gave a local chimpanzee a good shave, would he have said to God - 'huh, why did you make me look just like that thing???'

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Message 48 of 50 (478253)
08-13-2008 9:25 AM
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08-13-2008 8:41 AM


Re: This is a Science Thread
there's a forum for that: Theological Creationism and ID
I'm wondering if this thread should really be there... any defense raised will almost certainly be theological in nature. What do you think? I have no objections to a move...

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