ericmurphy
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| Quote (jeannot @ May 09 2006,14:14) | How do Vitamin C falsify common design?
I'm not aware about this case, do you have a link? |
The busted Vitamin C gene that humans and chimps does not, of course, "falsify" common design (since common design is, after all, unfalsifiable), but it does make it look pretty dubious.
It would be hard to argue that a busted gene would be "designed" into an organism. If God took the basic chimp design, and modified it create humans, wouldn't he take the time to first fix the busted gene? Or is God just congenitally lazy?
For a guy who can create everything from electrons to galactic superclusters, fixing one little transcription error seems like it would have been pretty trivial. Kind of like Windows, where you see the same bugs cropping up in versions of Windows ten years later.
Or maybe Windows programmers' flaws are evidence that God created man in his own image? Who knows?
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