Arguments against Design (General)

by David Turell , Monday, August 03, 2009, 15:44 (5403 days ago) @ BBella

This leaves an amazing feeling within that is worth the perspective...true or not. - I get the same feeling. I recognize it is totally at an emotional level. - 
> Somewhere within the physical body there is an internal knowing of exactly how to run everything presumably for the good of the whole. - The body does know how to run itself. All organs have feedback systems to judge levels of various chemicals. The lower brain has automatic centers to keep an eye on blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, etc. For example your pH (acid level) should be 7.4, your sodium(salt) level is 0.9%, just like ocean water, and should be interesting to you since life developed at sea and came on land later. - Nerves from the brain keep an eye on digestive function, for example (vagus nerve). Various hormones also have regulatory control functions and are watched by the lower brain which then signals the pituitary to get things under control by releasing hormones that stimulate other homone glands. - All of this is extremely finely controlled. For example living by dialysis never achieves the quality of life good kidneys give you. That is why folks look for transplants. We have no way to implant man-made kidneys or livers; e can't make any machine or mechanisms that matches. It would be nice as there would be no rejection problems.