(March 5, 2021 at 10:02 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Human eyes, for example, are heavily integrated within the visual system. Our eyes exist at a delicate crossroads between sensory outputs to the brain and motor inputs from the brainstem―which means a lot can go wrong. Strabismus, for example, is a disorder of the extraocular muscles. Improper functioning of these muscles lead to misalignment of the eyes, producing double vision, and impairments in depth perception. Strabismus can lead to amblyopia, in which the misalignment leads to neural signals being suppressed and vision not developing properly in that eye (Kleinstein, 1984).
That's where natural selection comes in. If some being loses its eyesight it's bad unless that being is living in the dark, then it can be an advantage because it can use that energy and part of the brain for something else that will make it thrive.
Same with other changes: if some being gets to have very small limbs it's bad if it lives on land and will probably get caught by the predator, but if it lives in water then it's an advantage--like with dolphins.
(March 5, 2021 at 10:02 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Strabismus is arguably an auxiliary problem. And yet its indirect effects on vision are devastating. When a system is heavily integrated it is sensitive to change.
Yeah, no better way to prove intelligent design than with the flaw in the design.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
