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The Human Eye: A Double Standard?

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The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
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The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:01 am
If, as theists tell us, the human eye is so complex a structure that we are forced to provide ontological explanation for its design, is god so much more simple that he needs no designer?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:05 am
What kind of a lousy deity creates an eye so complex and yet puts a blind spot in it?
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:09 am
As for God being designed somehow, I bet that part involves turtles. Lotsa turtles.
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:13 am
They don't call it a double standard...
They call it "the uncaused causer" , or "the unmoved mover",... which is just special pleading to have the most complex consciousness imaginable as the one thing that existed before everything else.
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:30 am
NDGT on the series Cosmos explained perfectly how the eye evolved.  I don't know how to put a video up but it is easily found on netflix.
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:51 am
(April 28, 2015 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: If, as theists tell us, the human eye is so complex a structure that we are forced to provide ontological explanation for its design, is god so much more simple that he needs no designer?

Theists are full of shit.

Nature is replete with example of eyes reduced to every intermediate steps of complexity in the progress from simple light sensing cells towards supposedly irreducible complex focusing camera eyes. Along the way you see eye pits, exposed simple flat sheet retinas, lens-less pin hole eyes, compound focusless eyes.
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:55 am
Now there you go again, confusing the christers with facts.

Shame on you !!
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:58 am
(April 28, 2015 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: If, as theists tell us, the human eye is so complex a structure that we are forced to provide ontological explanation for its design, is god so much more simple that he needs no designer?

God is magical
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 9:58 am
If our eye is so perfect, then why make an even better one and give it to eagles?
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RE: The Human Eye: A Double Standard?
April 28, 2015 at 10:04 am
(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.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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