Quote:Let me get this straight: Because everything is not perfect, the designer is stupid or evil? My car wouldn't start the other day, but I don't think the designer was either of those two things.
Really terrifically, amazingly bad analogy. The team of people who designed your automobile are fallible human beings - design mistakes are common and to be expected, breakdowns are not the issue.
But suppose your design team put the engine on the roof, made the tires out of marzipan, and installed a windscreen that would shatter at 50kph. You would look at any of these and immediately think, 'Bad design' and you'd be right. But even if the car worked in some circumstances, (on a road that was softer than marzipan, or never being driven over 49kph), any reasonably intelligent human could come up with better design ideas.
If life was designed by a perfect Being, we should not be able to improve on. But I (and I'm not remotely a biologist or an engineer) could design a better eye, better/safer birth processes, better resistance to diseases, and so on. These are not the result of things breaking, but are flaws intrinsic to the 'design'. Why would a perfect Being, able to create life, get it so arsy-versy?
Boru
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