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What IS evidence of design? (CLOSING STATEMENTS ONLY)

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arachnophilia
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Message 68 of 377 (607868)
03-07-2011 3:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 66 by Dr Jack
03-07-2011 12:58 PM

not so fast!
Mr Jack writes:
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How about one of these:
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I suspect you and I would recognise that as designed.
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hang on a sec. here's a picture of phil plait's shower curtain:
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i suspect that we would recognize this as a much better likeness of a human being, specifically vladimir lenin, than your example. yet, no design or intention is present. what you're looking at is pareidolia, the "psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus ... being perceived as significant."
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this makes detecting design very difficult through just what we human beings would "recognize". our brains are rather specifically tuned for facial and bodily recognition.
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03-07-2011 3:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 69 by Briterican
03-07-2011 3:39 PM

Taq writes:
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"If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection."--Chapter 6, "Origin of Species", Charles Darwin.
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Briterican writes:
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I'm curious about this one. I have no doubt that this is an accurate quote, but my first thought was "what about symbiosis?" - so I googled the quote... and guess what... I came across numerous creationist sites using this very idea (symbiosis vs this quote) as evidence of the defeat of Darwinism.
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As I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I wonder if any of you could explain to me how this is NOT related to symbiosis, OR, why Darwin would revise said quote were he alive today?
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symbiosis is a mutually beneficial.
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