Atheism vs. God's Existence

[Whateverist]

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

I can't believe there is a single person on this planet who has the audacity to say that they could personally design life better than it is. Everything that has ever been observed in nature has been great at what it does, including the trachea/esophagus setup. I do not concede that life has aspects of poor design, it is clearly done well.

If the trachea/esophagus is such a problem, then why haven't the two tubes diverged into two separate ones through evolution? If evolution can't do that, then how on earth do you want me to believe it is responsible for the cellular features?

And now you're just being silly.  You obviously neither understand nor accept evolution.

I wonder if I may ask you a religious question.  Is the idea of "god" tied up with His creative function for you?  Or are you in it for the objective morals and/or afterlife plan?  Also, how can your ideas of what God is be so precise?