by sinis 16 Replies latest jw friends
Think the most stunning evidence of non-intelligent "design", and supports evolution, is the Laryngeal nerve.
Especially when you study the reasons why it has to follow the path that it does. Neil Shubin covers this well in his excellent book "Your Innner Fish"
If one believes in evolution, produce somehting that is better than what we presently have. - 1975
How about eyes that don't have all the wiring lying on top of the light receptors with just a little patch called the macula which is clear of obstruction. Its like somebody made a very good quality mirror then they smeared it all with a layer of vaseline (petroleum jelly) and then they took a cloth and wiped clean a little spot of 5mm diameter so you could still see.
This situation makes perfect sense in view of the history of the evolution of the eye - but no sense at all if it was made by an intelligent designer
I love topics like this.
nothing to contribute...just sayin'
what intelligent all knowing being would place a man's vulnerable testicles on the OUTSIDE of his body, completely unprotected? And THEN place a billion nerve endings there?! I don't know if we were created or evolved, but I do know that if we were created, God is an a-hole who laughs everytime a poor chap is punched in the junk.
That's kinda funny lol... But, when looking at it from an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense. The testicles need to be kept cooler than the rest of the body in order to keep sperm production up (heat kills the poor buggers). The Y sperm are more vulnerable than the X sperm (that's right...in the nuts, women are stronger lol), but too much heat will kill off huge numbers of both. This is why when a couple is trying to have a baby, men are told to switch to boxers (briefs keep the testicles close to the body, increasing their heat and decreasing sperm) and to stay out of hot tubs. Testicles are actually pretty amazing...when they're too cold, they pull up closer to the body to warm up, too hot and they relax away from the body to cool off. Keeps the swimmers at an even temperature (kinda like a hen rotating her eggs so they cook evenly lol). In an evolutionary sense, this "design" is perfect. Looking at it from a creationist standpoint, it's just plain stupid that an all-powerful god couldn't come up with a better freakin' plan.
And while we are on the topic of nuts - in our fishy ancestors the gonads are internal. In order to evolve the temperature sensitive mechanism that Morbidzbaby described we had to get them outside the abdomen. In order to achieve this we are left with a weakness that frequently leads to hernia that before the days of modern medicine would often become strangulated leading to a life threatening situation.
My gut response, just from the title of the thread was...."God has a sense of humor!"
How about a vulnerable throat that does triple duty of eat, speak, and breathe? Try and do all three at once and see what happens.
Ha ha jgnat....that's funny!
