Atheism vs. God's Existence

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

Then you've got to explain why an intelligent Designer, one who - by definition - has to be of a higher order of complexity than the universe itself, would design DNA that could be damaged in the first place, why teeth can decay - with or without proper care - and why the AIDS virus exists in the first place. The bald fact that these things are even possible is damning evidence against design.

Your comment to another poster that you doubt mutation/natural selection cannot account for complex living systems indicates that you don't understand either one.

Boru