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Wyrdsmyth · 04-27-2002, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by Joe Nobody:
<strong>Some who might say the complexity of the eye requires a Designer probably don't do so merely because it appears complex, but because they feel naturalistic processes--namely evolution can not account for such things. I understand this was a satire but I think in the process you did a great injustice to design arguments.</strong>

What is the "eye argument" but an argument from ignorance? Pointing at a gap in evolutionary biology... a current inability explain certain details... how on earth does that prove that something is 'irreducibly complex'? What is the logic here? We can't explain it now... so we'll never will be able to? Give me a break.

There was a time when people couldn't explain precipitation in scientific terms. I guess that established that the best explanation for rain was Zeus pissing through a sieve.

[ April 27, 2002: Message edited by: Wyrdsmyth ]</p>

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