Re: paleonet Stupid design

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Holterhoff" <frank@matricus.com>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: paleonet Stupid design


> Paul Blake wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
>
> Thanks for summarizing Paul - that is pretty much what I would say (and
> did say, as I'm sure was not lost on you), only I would say it without
> the hostility & ridicule.  For example, I would have said "we" instead
> of "you".
>

Sorry for the hostile appearance of the quote above.  I guess I have mostly
run into the nasty type of IDer/Creationist.

Regards
Paul Blake



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