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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 3:24 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 3:00 pm)max-greece Wrote: Touché - but we can live without our spleen and our appendix without any obvious adverse effects. No loss of functionality.
Having an appendix, like having legs, increases our chances of survival. Specialists have already found that the appendix helps prevent serious infections. Before modern antibiotics huge numbers of humans died from such things.
I just think that based on what we now know, the appendix should not be used as an example of a badly "designed" human body. It appears to be hugely beneficial to our survival before modern day medical aid.
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 3:25 pm
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Thus proving evolution.
Bang.
Done.
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 3:30 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 3:24 pm)Rahul Wrote: Having an appendix, like having legs, increases our chances of survival. Specialists have already found that the appendix helps prevent serious infections. Before modern antibiotics huge numbers of humans died from such things.
I just think that based on what we now know, the appendix should not be used as an example of a badly "designed" human body. It appears to be hugely beneficial to our survival before modern day medical aid.
But it does explode from time to time, I would call that bad design.
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 3:31 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: (March 1, 2014 at 3:24 pm)Rahul Wrote: Having an appendix, like having legs, increases our chances of survival. Specialists have already found that the appendix helps prevent serious infections. Before modern antibiotics huge numbers of humans died from such things.
I just think that based on what we now know, the appendix should not be used as an example of a badly "designed" human body. It appears to be hugely beneficial to our survival before modern day medical aid.
But it does explode from time to time, I would call that bad design.
Lots of things on the body explode from time to time.
They're not always bad...
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 3:36 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 3:24 pm)Rahul Wrote: (March 1, 2014 at 3:00 pm)max-greece Wrote: Touché - but we can live without our spleen and our appendix without any obvious adverse effects. No loss of functionality.
Having an appendix, like having legs, increases our chances of survival. Specialists have already found that the appendix helps prevent serious infections. Before modern antibiotics huge numbers of humans died from such things.
I just think that based on what we now know, the appendix should not be used as an example of a badly "designed" human body. It appears to be hugely beneficial to our survival before modern day medical aid.
Well that spurred a bit of research and it appears you are correct:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...tion-of-t/
Who knew?
Still - not a great design - its a walking time-bomb.
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 4:13 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: But it does explode from time to time, I would call that bad design.
Well our hearts seize up on us and cause death too. But I've never seen it on the roster as examples of poor design in these kinds of discussions.
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 4:19 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 2:25 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Cider is urine from the last leper in hell. Whisky is the way the truth and the light. Turn from thy sin lest it destroy thee.
Blasphemy! Heresy!
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Sure bro, getting a common cold is just a present from god, to reminds us how much he loves us. Anyone care for butter from my nose? 
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 4:47 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 4:13 pm)Rahul Wrote: Well our hearts seize up on us and cause death too. But I've never seen it on the roster as examples of poor design in these kinds of discussions.
Well if you consider that an all knowing, all powerful god, made us. Every part of us is bad design
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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RE: Intelligent design? Really?
March 1, 2014 at 4:58 pm
(March 1, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (March 1, 2014 at 2:25 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Cider is urine from the last leper in hell. Whisky is the way the truth and the light. Turn from thy sin lest it destroy thee.
Blasphemy! Heresy!
Had me a bourbon barrel aged cider and it was delish.
Whiskey snobs. Pffft.
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