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Thread #83492   Message #1538529
Posted By: Grab
09-Aug-05 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Intelpidity Design
Subject: RE: BS: Intelpidity Design
Sure, it's not as satisfactory an answer as "God pointed his finger and it happened", in that we naturally look for a "story" context with a beginning and an end. The ID story is certainly more emotionally attractive than "it just happened with a lot of very small steps". That's part of the problem that scientists have, I guess - trying not to let "common sense" or "it just happens" influence them.

Eyes are a great subject though, because there's a complete range of eyes in the natural world. Earthworms can only detect light and dark, and they only use that to know which way to dig. Dogs are limited to close-range black-and-white. Humans are reasonably good but nothing special, in the classic "generalist" way that humans tend towards (although notice that most people now require some form of eye correction, possibly because there's no longer a disadvantage in having vision defects since the invention of glasses!). Birds get UV vision (which they share with insects), and eagles can see vast distances very clearly. We even have octopi and humans sharing a common eye structure, which could be used as evidence of the Designer reusing his designs, but is usually taken as an example of convergent evolution where the same evolutionary tendencies give the same results (like the similarity between sharks and dolphins).

Graham.