RE: Refuting Evolution
November 6, 2013 at 6:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2013 at 8:00 pm by orogenicman.)
MS wrote Wrote:How can you explain
Symmetrical shapes of most creatures
Non-symmetrical internal organs
It is not even symmetrical; e.g. left hand is not a replica of the right one, it is a mirror image of it, this proves more the intelligence behind the design.
This assumes, of course, that symmetry and asymmetry are not a part of the natural world, which, of course, is a poor assumption. Crystal symmetry, for instance, is a direct reflection of its atomic structure, a perfectly naturally explainable phenomenon. Symmetry in biological organisms is a balanced distribution of body parts, but that symmetry is not perfect. If is was, when I divide my face into two parts vertically in a photograph and mirror them, I would not get the exact same facial appearance that I would get from the original face. That is because the environment often shapes that symmetry. For instance, I could have a scar on my right side that doesn't exist on my left side, or even better, I could have a deformity that causes my left cheek bone to sit higher up on my face than my right cheek bone. I could have a drooping eyelid on one side and not the other. These are not design features, and neither is the original symmetry, which is a function of natural selection.
Crinoids and other echinoderms have pentagonal symmetry, which is an evolutionary adaptation to the way these creatures feed, and to the way the parts of their crystalline exoskeletons intermesh.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero