RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 7, 2021 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2021 at 10:35 pm by possibletarian.)
(March 6, 2021 at 11:29 am)Klorophyll Wrote: Believe it or not, you got a point. Flaws in design directly prove design, because without them we wouldn't know what the "right" design is supposed to look like. It's because there are flaws in software that programmers figure out there is better possible software, and manage to improve it/update it or create a superior version altogether.
In this example you are fixing flaws from an already existing idea or end product, new ideas come by understanding what's missing, or what the customer wants not something that is meant to work a certain way and does not.
Quote:It's precisely because there are, for example, birth defects or congenital deformities, that the human body is a designed machine.
This will be interesting
Quote:Think about it, if all the combined brainpower of these biologists and medical researchers couldn't adjust the microscopic-scale genetic deformities responsible for most incurable diseases, then clearly the absence of these genetic deformities in healthy individuals indicates a superbly skilled designer,
How is having to fix flaws a an indication of a superbly skilled designer, surely not having to fix flaws is the indication of superbly skilled designer. Just because some don't have certain abnormalities from the average does not indicate design, it simply means those flaws are not there in that person, Do you know a single person who has never suffered from some infection or illness of some sort in their lives ?
Wouldn't a suffering free world be more suitable to the claim of design ?
Quote:who crafted a world with such a configuration that permits gradual self-improvement through natural selection. In a world without birth defects and disease, medicine wouldn't exist, we probably wouldn't have discovered cells or DNA and, more importantly, no one would have mentioned the word fine tuning or design.
We wouldn't need medicine in a superbly designed world, or natural selection what purpose would it serve and what would we be adapting to ?
And more importantly, you have yet to show proof of design at all, it's a claim without any evidence whatsoever.
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