Laetoli footprints (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, April 10, 2010, 17:10 (5340 days ago) @ David Turell


> > A smarter design exists. Pigliucci offers a picture (in Denying Evolution) where an optimized human design is offered for our environment. 
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> Unfortunately, life has one general basic set of designs, which results in having to use what is at hand, so we cannot actually re-invent the wheel of life any time we wish, and these arguements are always used to say there is no designer, as 'I can do it better than He did'.-In his case, he was assaulting the evangelical idea of a "perfect creator." As the Discovery Institute ultimately serves as an engine for evangelical ideology, this is a good tactic. -To address your deeper question--if this universal intelligence is capable of planning, then why not forsee the issue I raised? Humans of shorter height don't have the same issues with knees and weak back muscles, and--lets face it--THAT is a simple problem if you're already smart enough to tinker with a machine as its being developed. You can't just brush this argument away.

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