(August 8, 2014 at 7:52 am)Alex25 Wrote: I have a question: I have a friend who is a theist, and he had an argument to which I couldn't really reply reasonably. He said:
In nature, when a fruit is ready to be eaten, it changes its color from green to yellow, red, orange, blue, purpule etc.
However, before all fruits can be eaten they are all green, and that's a sign of a design in nature, that tells both animals and humans not to eat.
To be honest, his logic seems quite good, and I don't know what to say.. any ideas?
Call it symbiotic evolution.
Like insects and flowers.
Fruit develops in a particular way, animals learn that green fruit (looking like leaves) doesn't taste good and leave it alone.
Other fruits, like melons and figs just smell sweet with no need to change colors.
I'm not sure green apples haven't had a helping hand from humans, like bananas. Like I'm not sure about pears.