Creation or evolution has been discussed and argued with passion since Darwin had the audacity to confuse everyone with his little tome concerning the origins of man. Many people have been condemned to hell or declared stupid, irrational and illogical by those who believe in either creation or evolution. Within the past few years another explanation for life as we know it has been proposed. That explanation is called intelligent design. As I understand it, proponents for the explanation called intelligent design believe somewhere along the way someone or something or some entity with intelligence designed life as we know it. Obviously the grand designer with enough intelligence to make life and everything isn't God because then we would be here as a result of creation. No, this intelligent designer thought of everything and made everything. WOW! Quite an accomplishment for sure. I'd like to know how long the human species was on the drawing board before it looked like a working prototype (apes perhaps?). And then to design something as complex and multifunctional as the human anatomy with its neurological and physiology aspects truly took a designer with a superior intelligence. It has to be a really superior intelligent designer (not God, though) who could design and anticipate all those complexities which are needed for the human to be conceived, born, and live. Everything works perfectly.
I could agree with the intelligent designer concept of life except for one thing. It seems to me a truly intelligent designer would have designed the human species with no flaws. There is just one thing that seems to put a kink in the whole intelligent design idea. The knees. Let me make my case.
I have spent years and years trying to figure out what to do with my knees when I try to sleep. The knees are definitely not a good design. I mean, really, what designer worth their salt would design such an important joint and not anticipate the difficulty of finding a good position for the knees when sleeping. They don't fit together at all in any way in any position at any time during the night. They are bony and it is impossible to find a way to position them where one bony knee isn't resting on the other and at the same time remain comfortable. On your left side the right knee is scraping on your left. On your right side the left is on your right. That hurts. So, then, try putting one leg next to the other with knees abutting. With four knees that is called spooning and for that I have no complaints, but I'm talking two knees now. Two knees spooning is uncomfortable. And forget trying to get to sleep on your back with a pillow under your knees. Just before slumber you roll on your side and the knees come in contact again and you're back to where you started.. I could go on and on with just how difficult it is to find a comfortable position to sleep but the point is that an "intelligent designer" would have anticipated all this difficulty with knees and would have designed a better concept. So, the only conclusion I can make is there was no intelligent designer. The whole knee thing puts that concept to rest.
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ReplyDeleteYour surprising turn on the subject of intelligent design hints a good point; and you address the many 'flaws' found in nature, against the intelligent design theory. It is a fact that imperfection is all around us, in our lives too, all seems a process of searching improvement, while fighting, or indulging in, countless flaws, physical, moral, spiritual, what have you.
'Intelligent' and 'design' may reveal how we downsize that vast incomprehensible reality out there, as down here, to our own ‘little’ dimension. Yet, according to a belief or philosophy emanating from the Eastern culture I think, I’m not sure, all that is in the universe presents itself with similar structures and behavior from the smallest particle known on to the universe, and our observation on these may prove it to be right. So, to my own little view, observing our own world down here, and ourselves, let me think that 'intelligence' is permeating, or underlying, or co-operating, or is developed within all stuff in the universe; and perfecting itself within 'evolutionary experience', that is I believe there is an intelligent pattern, but this pattern define itself through experience and trial, within the laws of evolution, as probabilities and jungle law.
When you look at the way a tree will produce myriads of seeds that will be dispersed in the wind, you can clearly see the same pattern in stars, where billions of them are created. In both instances, I see the same pattern with the resulting probability that some of them, seeds or stars, or sperm for that matter, will land in good 'soil' to grow a new tree, or for the star to be the ground for further development, like here on earth, or to have a living being.
So yes, I am considering the evolution theory here, but without eliminating Intelligence somewhere in the game. 'Intelligence' seems to go on here, but it may trigger an egg and chicken syndrome debate. Are we ‘intelligent’ -or conscious- as a result of all this? Is there a definitive original 'Intelligent' structure behind 'evolution'? Maybe, maybe evolution within the law in which it is free to develop IS an intelligent concept.
We may be just a bit more conscious than a bear or a rock; look at how the world is running. Is ‘poor intelligence’ evolving? And consciousness? well GG I, dunno, and YES, the knees are a damn thing, as is my brain, and about everything of myself, but since we have to go with it, better enjoying that tiny chance we got to become what we are, instead of a rock or a fish...What are the odds to be what we are, 'conscious', on that planet, a definitely rare thing among all the 'seeds' or stars in our galaxy. We want to know what's all about, and we're going there.