Intelligent design not so smart.

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  1. Blindman Valued Senior Member

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    If a creator designed DNA to run life why does it stuff up so often. An endless list of problems occur because of the imperfections of DNA replication. 100's of million humans suffer from bad design.

    Approx 1 in 10 people suffer from a birth defect, and about the same in nature. Intelligent design not so smart.
     
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  3. Ja'far at-Tahir Grand Ayatollah of SciForums Registered Senior Member

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    "IE not so smart. I has autism, derrrrhe derr heder."
     
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  5. CptBork Valued Senior Member

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    I've seen the Virgin Mary appear in a grilled cheese sandwich, but I ain't never seen no intelligent life spontaneously evolving out of peanut butter.
     
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  7. Blindman Valued Senior Member

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    Maybe you should spend a little more time watching your meal.. Maybe a billion years or two..
     
  8. Lori_7 Go to church? I am the church! Registered Senior Member

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    i would say 10 in 10 suffer.
     
  9. Yosef Registered Senior Member

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    So we healthy ones can appreciate what we have. God makes good and bad things happen to us. Good and bad in order to try us (as persons, parents, brothers etc...).
     
  10. Ripley Valued Senior Member

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    "Intelligent design" is the not-so-intelligent nom de guerre given to an abstraction ill understood.
     
  11. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    one could also argue that the world is not intelligently designed, since we are frequently razed by bush fires, tumbled by gale force winds etc.

    IOW as long as one is possessed by the value that the needs, interests and concerns of (conditioned) living entities stand at the pinnacle of any consideration of intelligent design, there is ample evidence for it not to be so.
    :shrug:
     
  12. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah he's just funny that way. Happy Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa everyone! (that's a genetic disease that makes your skin fall off at the slightest touch)

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    You are correct, it isn't.
     
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  13. CptBork Valued Senior Member

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    For some people, things are perfect exactly the way they are, and forest fires and cataclysms are just part of the overall natural balance. They will call this perfection and proof of intelligent design. In that case, all they're doing is resolving to call everything perfect regardless of what it turns out to be- at that point all we're doing is playing word games, so what's the point in even bothering?
     
  14. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    for as long as one is possessed by the value that the needs, interests and concerns of (conditioned) living entities stand at the pinnacle of any consideration of intelligent design, isn't it.
     
  15. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    You need to buy a branded peanut butter, not one of these chain store economy versions.
     
  16. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    That is the premise though. I didn't invent it.
     
  17. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    we hardly invent the values that run our world views
     
  18. CptBork Valued Senior Member

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    I remember a couple of years ago, someone on these forums was arguing against evolution by pointing out we hadn't found life on other planets yet. Fool didn't realize Captain Kirk isn't born for another 250 years!
     
  19. macon church Registered Member

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    Great one. CaptBork
     
  20. Blindman Valued Senior Member

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    I should have know. This has had no response from the religious right at all. Oh well :shrug:
     
  21. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    ... or alternatively, alluding that a higher principle of the design lies in something other than the (unchallenged) pursuit of happiness by the (conditioned) living entity.
     
  22. Blindman Valued Senior Member

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    "pursuit of happiness" What....

    Most animals live on the edge of starvation. Most suffer agonizing painful death. Nature as it is seen is in a constant struggle for survival.

    Many humans will not find happiness even despite there own wants or rights..
     
  23. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    hence you cite all these as evidence of a design bereft of intelligence, yes?
     

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