I hadn’t planned to open that particular can of worms again, but if you really want to, consider this: if your chosen deity created humans, he did a piss-poor job of it.
The esophagus and trachea, which are put together such that we can easily choke on our food, and often do.
A skull so large that women often die in (natural) childbirth, just trying to get the child out.
A body design that forces us to walk upright on two limbs (an extremely precarious position for a creature of our build), but puts the most vulnerable part — the head — farthest from the ground so it’ll get the worst of any fall unless we break the fall with our hands and arms… which often get broken themselves instead.
The human knee. Two sticks bound together end-to-end by four rubber bands, with a failure rate that any manufacturer would be horrified by.
Joints in general. They degrade soon after middle age in most people, leaving many crippled for the last third or more of their lives.
Limbs that can’t be regenerated. What did some “lower” animals do to deserve regenerating limbs, when they only live a couple of years at most, and we have to live for decades with any such maiming?
Brains so poor that at least half of all people (and oddly enough, almost all of His most vehement worshipers) are terminally stupid.
Frankly, any Supreme Being who created humans really should be embarrassed by it, as well as many other truly stupid designs in nature. No all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful deity could ever make such errors.
On the other hand, evolution is pretty much defined by fortuitous mistakes, and fits the known facts perfectly.
Of course, I don’t expect logic to have any more effect on you now than it ever did. “Truth,” for you, is whatever your leaders have proclaimed it to be, and you’ll ignore any inconvenient facts to the contrary.
It’s obvious we have different perspectives on how miraculous biology is. If anything, maybe I appreciate science more, with a perspective that it isn’t random chance. 🙂
The miraculousness of biology does not preclude the mechanism of evolution.
Design, not evolution. 😉
I hadn’t planned to open that particular can of worms again, but if you really want to, consider this: if your chosen deity created humans, he did a piss-poor job of it.
Frankly, any Supreme Being who created humans really should be embarrassed by it, as well as many other truly stupid designs in nature. No all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful deity could ever make such errors.
On the other hand, evolution is pretty much defined by fortuitous mistakes, and fits the known facts perfectly.
Of course, I don’t expect logic to have any more effect on you now than it ever did. “Truth,” for you, is whatever your leaders have proclaimed it to be, and you’ll ignore any inconvenient facts to the contrary.
It’s obvious we have different perspectives on how miraculous biology is. If anything, maybe I appreciate science more, with a perspective that it isn’t random chance. 🙂
The miraculousness of biology does not preclude the mechanism of evolution.