How to easily defeat any argument for God

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It's a bit misleading though, because organs haven't evolved in order to do anything specific. They have evolved as a result of being advantageous (or being associated with advantageous traits) within a certain environment, thus favored by natural selection.

It's true that organs evolved because they were advantageous, with no intelligent design behind them. That doesn't mean that there is no teleology.

The use of teleological language when it comes to evolution, is controversial to say the least. We borrow the language of design, when speaking of biological parts, and their history, primarily because it’s difficult to avoid. We can speak of biological elements as we do engineered machines, apply a bit of reverse engineering to trace their history.

But teleology here is more like symbols and metaphors, but not to be taken literally.

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“Ethics is an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate...the way our biology enforces it’s ends is by making us think there is an objective higher code to which we are all subject.” -EO Wilson

Good job you found a quote

A confessional.