(May 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm)Gemini Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 4:49 pm)AAA Wrote: Think about the success rate of eating. I don't even feel like I can speculate a reasonable ratio of successful attempts at eating to the attempts that end in choking. Just be thankful we've got mechanisms to prevent choking.
This argument works if your intent is to affirm that our physiology is the result of natural selection, and not malicious idiocy.
Now how would you defend the claim that our physiology is the result of a tri-omni supernatural being?
That part of our physiology is consistent with evolution, but it is by no means inconsistent with design.
And I would go to the molecular level if I was to defend the claim that it was the more likely to be the result of an intelligent designer. One great example of a feature consistent with intelligent design is the elaborate control mechanisms that eukaryotic cells have when regulating their genes. I was just reading a paper today on epigenetic modifications controlling gene expression. An environmental stimulus will lead to an intracellular change which will lead to the activation or inactivation of an chromatin modifying enzyme which will add or remove functional groups to the chromatin. This remodels the structure of the chromatin in order to promote or prevent transcription factors to bind, which will then attract RNA polymerases at different strengths. I know that was a little vague, but there are so many different responses that we haven't even begun to understand the molecular mechanism by which our bodies deal with a changing environment. Even more interesting is that these changes can be heritable, meaning that the way that you live your life could be displayed in the phenotype of your children.