(April 28, 2010 at 12:36 am)AngelThMan Wrote: I was quoting from a nature show. But I think it's pretty obvious, isn't it? Is there any other tool in the world that can perform as many different tasks as the human hand?
Well, masturbation has already been mentioned.... is there another use????
I'll give a nod to the octopus tentacle. It could be used to type, to grip objects (back to masturbation again), push, pull, hit things with, hmmm... not sure what a hand can do that a tentacle cannot... well, apart from give someone the middle finger...
But using the hand to prove God doesn't really get you anywhere. So, humans have pretty useful things on their forelimbs.... but so do birds. They can fly. We can't fly. Flying things can go higher than us, be closer to the magical sky daddy, so wings are probably evidence that god exists and that birds are god's chosen creatures. <-- sarcasm intended.
What about the amoeba? That can replicate by splitting itself. One minute there is one, the next two. Easy!
We have to go through the whole messy business of sex, followed by 9 months of pregnancy, followed by our children being largely defenseless for the first few years of their lives.
So, by your logic, God deliberately chose an inefficient reproduction system for us and gave the Amoeba a much better one. What is God's favorite creature again?
The whole problem with a lot of your arguments (and by this I mean not only you, but a lot of Christians) is that you like to look at something very specific, and block out the rest of reality while you make your point. To compound the error you will then happily take some other point as proof, even if that point is in contradiction with the first.
The main thing is to consider only 1 thing at a time so nothing comes into conflict.... a bit like reading the bible... as long as you take each passage as separate its fine, but when you put them together its full of contradiction.... just consider the OT and the NT... it is effectively two separate religions:
OT=I am a jealous god and I will kill anyone who disagrees with me
NT=God (and Jesus) love you very much... and I will send anyone who disagrees with me to hell
Hmmm, so not too much difference i suppose.
A finite number of monkeys with a finite number of typewriters and a finite amount of time could eventually reproduce 4chan.