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vjtorley
January 19, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Dr. Matzke,
I have to say I laughed when I read your response – and I don’t do that often. Your reply is a perfect example of the Pegasus thinking I warned against in my essay: “if you can picture it, then it’s possible.” You wrote:
The Designer didn’t have to square a circle, he just had to put the freakin’ birth canal somewhere other than right through a tiny hole in the pelvis. Why put it through the skeleton at all? A portal a few inches higher up in the lower belly would do nicely. No tearing and incontinence, no jamming the baby’s head through the pelvis, no problem with breach births, etc.
That’s not a demonstration of possibility. To do that, you have to find the genes responsible for building the birth canal, show how they could be re-programmed to build a portal through the lower belly, and show that doing so would not render the animal less viable. I don’t know of any animals that give birth in the way you describe, so I’m highly skeptical that the arrangement would even work.
Evolution doesn’t just occur at the macro level, as you are well aware. Showing how a design could be improved on isn’t enough; you have to show how the code for it would have to be re-written.
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Hmm, let's take a look at these words:
"That’s not a demonstration of possibility. To do that, you have to find the genes responsible for building the birth canal, show how they could be re-programmed to build a portal through the lower belly, and show that doing so would not render the animal less viable."
Hey vince, why is it that you and the rest of the god pushing IDiots don't apply the same level of demand to your non-evidential assertions?
Tell you what, how about you go find the alleged intelligent designer (your chosen god yhwh), and show how it designed the birth canal, and how it programmed and built all the body parts of everything that has ever lived, and don't forget to show the "code" and how it was written for everything that ever lived and all of their parts and everything else in and of the universe. After all, you god zombies do believe and claim that your chosen god designed and created everything.
Since your chosen designer/creator god is allegedly all powerful and all knowledgeable, and since you have its private phone number, a quick call and request from you and I'm sure that you'll get, and be able to provide, all of that information.
If you can't, I guess I'll just have to laugh at you.
