(May 21, 2016 at 10:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Funny thing about the ID crowd: They almost universally posit a Designer that is perfect, then credit it with a sub-optimal creation. Doesn't really help explain things like AIDS, tooth decay and Harlequin Foetus Syndrome.
On the other hand, if life-as-it-exists is the result of natural selection acting on situationally favourable mutations, we'd expect exactly what we see - organisms that aren't perfect, but suited to their particular environments. In other words, just good enough to get by.
Boru
NO, those problems that you mentioned are the result of the mutations that are supposed to be your hero. When DNA gets damaged, enzymes may not function properly, and they can lead to the phenotypic problems that you complain about. It's not that it was designed to be that way, it's that it got damaged.