According to Paul's arguments, we must conclude that crystals are constructed by some little fairies that place the molecules into crystal-lattice arrangements -- crystals have order, and they must therefore be designed, right?
Furthermore, there are numerous features of the Earth's biota that suggest multiple, finite, and fallible designers. The multi-design inference, as it may be called, is often used in studies of various human designs, studies like detection of plagiarism and handwriting forgery.
Simply consider multiple designs.
Wings: bird, bat, pterosaur, insect
Camera-like eye: vertebrates, squid/octopuses
Gripping limbs: primates, perching birds, some arthropods (mantids, scorpions, lobsters/crabs)
Fishlike shape and fins: squid, fish, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, sea turtles, sirenians, seals, cetaceans
And conflicts in ecologies.
Grass vs. deer vs. wolves vs. fleas, heartworms, and canine-distemper viruses
Grass has phytoliths that wear down deer teeth; teeth which are millstone-ish for grinding up grass.
Deer have forward-sideways eyes and ears for detecting wolves, while wolves have completely-forward eyes and ears for detecting and chasing deer.
Fleas have piercing mouthparts for getting to blood and sucking it, while wolves scratch to get rid of fleas.
Heartworms and CD viruses live parasitically inside of wolves, while wolves' immune systems fight them.
[This message has been edited by lpetrich, 04-12-2003]
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