Re: Unintelligent Design?


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Harry Thompson wrote:



10. Wings on flightless birds
9. Hind leg bones on whales
8. Body hair on humans (not enough to truly keep warm, or puff up to
scare predators, etc.)
7. Human tailbone/coccyx
6. Astyanax mexicanus fish's eyes, which don't function
5. Wisdom teeth in humans
4. "The sexual organs of dandelions"
3. "Fake Sex in Virgin Whiptail Lizards"
2. Male breast tissue and nipples on men
1. Appendix

See
http://www.livescience.com/animals/top10_vestigial_organs-1.html

Harry, now you've done it. You've now gone and made those theocrats
do
something that they try mightily to avoid: Thinking.



You'll never convince me that the ability to think and reason evolved
from a rock. In fact, the Human Gnome Project proved otherwise.

The human genome project revealed nothing of the sort. It resulted in
mapping the human genome, nothing more.


"Of most fascination is the possibility that future studies of the
mitochondrial DNA may lead scientists back along the trail of human
evolution toward an ancestral female "Eve," breathing new life into the
mythologies considered in Section 1 of this unit."

III. Chemical Structure of Life-The Human Genome


So? All that does is validate the fact that the postulate of a common
ancestor is likely.

Well, first you said the HGP didn't even address it. Second, no one said
that the HGP said anything about the ability to think and reason evolved
from a rock.

Sorry, JC, but that's about it -- not a rock, but something similar.
Just because you personally don't understand how it happened doesn't
mean it didn't happen. It did, at least I think so.

Here's a wikipedia article on the subject of the origin of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

Jeff

Yeah, but when you ask some of these "scientists" as I did once at a seminar
at Rice University in Houston, Texas, this question "what was the very first
thing that everything else evolved from and where did it come from?" nobody
could answer that. So, they don't know anymore than anyone else about the
origin of life. It's just speculation based on some vague information they
have accumulated. And, no one has ever answered the question of from what
did the ability to think and reason come from. Until they can do that, I'll
simply not believe what they are selling. That doesn't necessarily mean that
I believe in intelligent design either. It just means that I don't know and
don't claim to know.


--
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

JC


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