Re: Bad design

On Feb 9, 3:39 pm, "Steve Marshall" <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder if we could list some examples of bad design - stuff like
flightless birds ? It would seem that these are examples of systems that
would not have come from the Creationists god.

Steve M


But the design argument is an argument by analogy, and in my
experience its apologists will milk that for all its worth:

Biological (physical, cosmological, etc) systems are like certain
machines or human-made structures. said structures have an intelligent
designer. Therefor, biological (etc) systems have a designer.

But no human engineer would be so boneheaded as to include (favorite
bad design here)!

Ah, but the Cosmic Designer wasn't a human, so we don't know what
their motives were in creating these systems.


Now, of course this kicks the legs out from under their initial
statement unless they are going to explain how they know enough about
the designer to know that it designs their favorite examples like
humans do, but not enough about it to say what would constitute bad
design on its part. And they're not going to do that.

But for what it's worth, the archive has this:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/jury-rigged.html

charlie

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