(April 28, 2015 at 10:04 am)Alex K Wrote:(April 28, 2015 at 9:58 am)pocaracas Wrote: If our eye is so perfect, then why make an even better one and give it to eagles?
Original sin. Before the fall, our eyes were perfect.
I see you have spent too much time around Christians.
However, that is irrelevant to the original argument. It is the human eye, as it presently exists, that is supposedly only to be explained by reference to God.
And for the original argument, that the human eye must have had a designer: in that case, the designer must have been an incompetent buffoon. If you consider all of the people who need glasses, or who get corrective surgery, one finds that the failure rate for the human eye is near 100%. That indicates a poor design, and so we have an incompetent designer who designed the eye. Indeed, humans are capable of making artificial eyes that are, in many respects, superior to a human eye, and so it would seem that humans must be superior to God.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
