If design implies Intelligence,
Who designed the Designer?
Is it "turtles all the way down"?
posted by Jim Horning at 4:48 PM
Sunday, February 13, 2005
If design implies Intelligence,
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See also Unintelligent Design by Jim Holt in the New York Times Magazine.
"The gravest imperfections in nature, though, are moral ones. Consider how humans and other animals are intermittently tortured by pain throughout their lives, especially near the end. Our pain mechanism may have been designed to serve as a warning signal to protect our bodies from damage, but in the majority of diseases -- cancer, for instance, or coronary thrombosis -- the signal comes too late to do much good, and the horrible suffering that ensues is completely useless."
"And why should the human reproductive system be so shoddily designed? Fewer than one-third of conceptions culminate in live births. The rest end prematurely, either in early gestation or by miscarriage. Nature appears to be an avid abortionist, which ought to trouble Christians who believe in both original sin and the doctrine that a human being equipped with a soul comes into existence at conception."
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