The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
Thats amazing. I’d never heard of that.
Everytime a debater started up the I.D. road, I would just cite Sam Harris on how no Creator would make a body that:
1. Breathes out the same hole it eats from. This accounts for thousands of child deaths every year.
2. Pees out the same hole as it inseminates from. This causes trouble for women.
3. Has knees that are weak and prone to arthritic agony. We spent 100,000,000’s years on all fours, and then stated walking upright only 7,000,000 years ago.
Other arguments against ID are deductive, where we look at the track record of life on this planet and can immediately tell, there was never any deliberation or intent to it. How do we know? Because of the monumental waste and haphazard forms we see all life taking.
4. We can tell from the fossil record that many hominids died from abscess teeth before their mid 30’s. Now we live into our 80s by simply brushing our teeth and having dentists do work occasionally. Its a bad design.
5. Say what you want about vanity but Male Pattern Baldness! Was that God’s design? To humiliate half the male population? Seriously, this causes millions of men to go without affection/sex; and their self esteem is blown for years. What loving god would torment men this way? What designer would make hair grown in all the places you dont want it, and not grow in the place you need it most?
6. Why create a being that is so hopelessly dependent on food and sleep? 30% of our lives are spent as if we’re already dead! We are constantly going to the bathroom, eating, drinking and sleeping. Its a waste of time.
7. Why create millions upon millions of creatures, over the course of a Billion years, only to sh!tcan them all? 99.9% of all species on this planet have gone extinct. What’s even more strange is, why create 10,000 different kinds of Beetles and even more kinds of Parasites, Virus’ and Bacteria… while only creating a few different types of sentient hominids that in and of themselves are terribly designed. Had God not learned anything during life designing the prior 900 million years? And when he created us, he screwed it up too. Then he waited, while we suffered and died in youth for 250,000 years, before he finally allowed medicine to emerge.
Or is it that there is no Grand Designer? No S~~~… Oh, but flowers and Puppies are so cute, so God had to have made them. LOL.
Evolution is like a river. It carves through the weakest sediment, moving down hill. The path it takes winds and turns. It finds where it can advance or it just pools up and evaporates. Its never a picture perfect.
Some would still argue… Evolution is God’s Tool Bag. How can we judge his methods? (the whole faux humility of God, as if his enormity and omniscience completely stupefies our peon capacity for understanding) Well, we’re looking at his methods and we can see prolific waste and poor form. We’re seeing Poor Form that literally built upon itself even more poorer forms for Millions of years.
All of this waste and poor form produces nothing other than SUFFERING and DEATH. If God did design all life, we can only come to one conclusion about his nature: he delights in pain and death, period.
The whole notion of god is mind-tiring because of its absurdity. Life came about due to mundane physical and chemical interactions, thats it. The very notion of “creating,” is ANTHROPOMORPHIC. Why does something have to be “created.” Because humans are so full of themselves, that we cant comprehend anything beyond our own Human Tinted Lens. We must have explanations that make sense TO US… nevermind if they are true or not, it only matters if WE CAN RELATE to the explanation. This is the delusion that persists. Reality as defined by emotional ultimatum.
SpiderHerder 6 months ago.
