Does Intelligent Design really show any characteristics of an Intelligent Designer?
Posted by James on April 27, 2011 · 14 Comments
Question by SJesusReality: Does Intelligent Design really show any characteristics of an Intelligent Designer?
The term “intelligent design” indicates that the design of human beings came from some sort of Supreme Being that could design life forms BETTER than the life forms that were created.
So why is it clear that the design of human beings was not very well thought out? Would that not indicate Stupid Design, or Average Design?
Why is it that if a human being sat down and re-designed the human being, the new design would be 1000 times better (more intelligently designed) than the current state of humanity?
Example : Two eyes in front of the head. If I were to re-design the human being I would place 2 eyes in front, two eyes in the back of the head, one eye on top of the head and one eye on each side of the head and a brain capable of handling the extra visual intake.
Would you agree that that configuration would be more intelligent than two eyes in front?
If you disagree…please explain why 2 eyes in front of the head is the more intelligent design…if you are intelligent enough.
Human re-designers…please add some more examples if you believe your design would be vastly more intelligent than what currently exists.
Thanks for intelligent answers…simple answers will be considered an admission of a simple minded designer. 🙂
Best answer:
Answer by pab
exactly
Intelligent Design is just a feeble attempt to inject god into scientific theories that some Christians can’t seem to get a handle on
I would also design humans to have seperate organs for intercourse and urination
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
I dont think you have any understanding on how the human body works. If you took Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2 in college you will see how complicated the human body is and how perfectly everything fits together.
Have you found any body part that is useless? In a chemical level? Hmmm guess not.
Oh yeah, Intelligent, does not mean perfect nor does it mean invulnerable. Otherwise there wouldnt be balance.
“The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.”
(Leonardo da Vinci)
hmmm pretty intelligent if you ask me, how can these two little things do so much despite its size? And its sensitivity do all that? also despite its “imperfections” with the nerve endings, blood vessels etc. it still manage to work, how remarkable is that?
hey Corey!
Your retinas are not facing the wrong way, you need your pupils in order to adjust the light that enters your eyes, and it does that on its own, how do you like them apples? Also everything has its time to be “better”, nobody said that humans are done evolving
Which brings me to the question to the questioner:
“who said that the Intelligent Designer’s design is done?”
Then you would just look weird; like a spider. What are you, some sort of aracnophile?
Eye of the Python:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7yAEh-PU4M
A comedic animation done in MS paint of just how “intelligently” designed the human eye really is.
Spot on!
I wouldn’t be so careless as to design 1 tube for both eating and breathing – a choking hazard waiting to happen if you ask me.
Also if I was going to design starfish and give them an ability to regrow a limb, I would probably extend that benefit to my other designs.
@Question Everything: Why would you design the tiny microbe in the first place? obviously takes pleasure in watching its creations suffer.
If we were designed by a god…
why are we so complex and prone to failure in general? Is this the simplest and most elegant design it could think of?
I completely agree…humans are far too fragile to be considered intelligently designed. Two-thirds of the planet is covered in water; wouldn’t an intelligent designer then design his most high-ordered lifeform to be completely amphibious? And why would you design it so a 6-ft. tall biped can be destroyed by a tiny microbe? Pretty stupid “designer” if you ask me.
No, it just shows the inevitable transformations that take place with some forms of matter over time given the right circumstances… I would guess that most life forms are carbon based through out the Universe..
Oh and by the way, most mammals that are predators have their eyes in the front of their heads for judging distance to their pray, human beings are a predatory species
but where would you stop, if we had to have like ten eyes or whatever ( a few at the end of each limb) youd argue that were not intelligent design because we dont all have photographic memories or because were not all immortal, or because were not all good looking or because were all individuals or because we have a blind spot or because we cant fly or because we cant hold our breath longer or because we get sick or because we have to ingest and excrete foods and liquids etc etc etc seriously the list is like infinitley long
ID was proved in a court of law to be thinly veiled Biblebabble, that’s all it is!
the idea of intelligent design, as it was explained to me, is that the entire world is too complex and too precise a system to have arisen on it’s own. this implies an Intelligent Designer.
this has nothing to do with saying “Humans have the ultimate physical bodies, that are unimprovable.”
humans were designed based on deep mystical forces, essentially connecting every aspect of our bodies to an aspect of the world, and to an underlying spiritual force that connects them. they were not designed to be physically perfect.
we were placed in this world to complete specific tasks, both individually and with other people. our bodies are designed to be the perfect tools for achieving these challenges, giving us the ability to achieve them as well as the limitations that leave them as challenges.
these are a few answers i thought of as i typed. they should be good enough, or at least provide some food for thought.
What good would all those eyes be inside a football helmet???? Or when your swimming??? While your at it, give us nostrils to go with those eyes, and mouths. Bud, get a grip !!! We are already fearfully, and wonderfully made. So, no, I do not agree with your retrofit, I’ll stick to the way The Almighty Creator made me. It doesn’t get any better than this.
I would add more organs that “perfectly fit together” that would randomly rupture and kill a person with no other purpose. Just one appendix, God? Where’s the suspense in that?
Hey, Cynical_beyond_belief, who do I speak to about replacing these eyes with some that are perfectly put together. My retinas are facing the wrong way, and I have a massive blind spot and weird dark lines that my brain has to compensate for by lying to me about the detail I can’t really see. And all these horrible floaters. Oh, and that glaucoma I’m at pretty high risk at getting in a couple of decades.
Our biology might be pretty amazing, but it is extremely sub-ideal.
LOL, talk about intelligent questions. We could also add one eye on each index finger, or on all of them, and a couple more arms, more fingers on each arm, at least 4 feet, hm lets see no reason to have eyes on the toes, so that’s OK. Boy that turns out ugly, try going out with that. Has somebody been playing Spore for a while now?
Pardon my simple answer.
God created form in order to taste the bitter fruit of form. We have no one to blame in this gross of reality. We need to be alert to ideology, it’s creditably draining. We need to keep things as simple of possible. We could become madly approaching to complexity. Beyond culture programming, beyond expectation, etc. Were compatible to nature, we should keep it that way. But it is threatening to the Ego. The ego is a tumor like growth, it is a cultural value, of course. But,What are we going to do about the Illusion ego, it is a disease to the natural being?