Re: paleonet Stupid design

["Paul Blake" <p.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "jean-louis VOLAT" <jean-louis.volat@wanadoo.fr>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: paleonet Stupid design


> As a french, I may have little understanding of the ID theory. How do
> they cope with the numerous examples of poor design in living organisms ?
> I remember a movie showing an argument against the existence of a
> Creator from the position of the human tibia in front of the leg, which
> makes it a fragile and easy target. In a similar way, the panda's thumb
> famous from Gould's paper is a very poor way (a deformation of the
> metacarpian) of gaining a prehensile hand. With their short arms the
> Tyrex could not only reach their own mouth...
> We know this comes from the historical contingency of evolution, but how
> could God be so poor an architect ?
>
> JLV
>

<ID Mode> Since you are just a limited human, and the ID was much smarter
than you, you are not qualified to criticise God's [oops....I mean the ID's]
design.  What you think of as flaws may actually be very important design
features and you are just too dumb to understand it properly</ID Mode>

That is the sort of response I have seen from ID Advocates.

Regards
Paul Blake






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