Where do you find this crap Doubter? This is quite amusing. The creationists now attempt to prove the poor design is GOOD, using science. LOL "So why is Dawkins' "tidy-minded engineer" design such a bad idea? Dawkins thinks that the neural layer should be under the photoreceptors, putting them between the photoreceptors and the choroid. Where would the RPE (which is required to regenerate the photoreceptors) go?" Well gee.... why don't we just ask an OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT god??? Are the creationists being serious here? Are they saying god is INCAPABLE of coming up with a design which allows for photoreceptors which are NOT blocked by the wiring while at the same time solving the issues Mr Rich Deen is complaining about? This is SO absurd. There are design flaws EVERYWHERE you look in nature. You can come up with as many EXCUSES for god as you wish, but the fact is, HE HAS NO EXCUSES if he REALLY is all knowing and all powerful. I would love to hear the EXCUSE for a giraffe dropping a newborn 6 feet onto its head!! Maybe being dropped from six feet is really beneficial somehow right? What a joke. Get real guys. Look at the obvious. How many animals have SUPERIOR vision that humans??? Is god NOT capable of learning from his "previous designs" ??? Why cant I have eagle vision???? Oh thats right... God is not smart enough to design MY eye as well as another animals eye. Maybe god has a severe MEMORY PROBLEM? These creationists are really desperately stretching here to defend an obviously weak and indefensible position. Without modern medicine/science, many mothers would DIE giving birth because their babies head is TOO LARGE to pass through their hips. What is the BRILLIANT design behind this mechanism??? Maybe they are supposed to SQUUUUUUEEEZE harder and give birth to a CONE HEAD baby because massaging the BRAIN is good for them? LOL.. Yeah...some kids DO come out with cone heads, but im talking about somthing that looks more like a long TUBE. LOL. WORM HEAD babies attack! AAaaaaah..... Another BRILLIANT design by an OMNISCIENT creator. Do you really believe we are all perfectly designed by a perfect creator??? I mean really??? If you believe that, then you truly believe in fairy tales. peace axeman
Same old argument that has already been refuted several times. Your post is full of unprovable assumptions. You are NOT capable of coming up with ANY probabilities without knowing all the variables involved. I guess you are just not capable of understanding this basic statistic principle and will continue to argue from ignorance instead. Let's try this one more time with a SIMPLE analogy. 1) I have a peg board with 1 million holes in it. 2) I have a bag full of red pegs and white pegs 3) You are NOT allowed to see how many pegs are in the bag, touch the bag, weigh the bag, nada. QUESTION: What is the probability that I will get 2 red pegs in a row on the board, if I attempt to randomly fill the board with all the pegs in the bag???????? ANSWER this question correctly Shoeshine, it's a serious question. peace axeman
Axeman - How was the fire? Pretty impressive I'll bet and several hundred thousand acres is immense. We in cooperation with the USDA have a 20 year experimental prescriptive burn research project that we started burning in a year ago. Only a few hundred acres for the first fire(we didn't want it to get away on the first burn) but it was still impressive. I am fascinated by all of the technology measuring instruments that they used and some were burned up by design, also incorporation of GPS and ground water and temperature measurements. They also simulated heavy rainfall after the burn to measure sediment run off and erosion. The purpose is to study the fire interval and emulate the natural cycle and see if that helps to prevent these catastrophic events. They put some of their instruments under the firefighter tents or blankets to test them but the results weren't too encouraging.
It was pretty crazy. I was in a few of the areas that the fire got pretty close too. (At friends homes). Watched a neighborhood burn to the ground from a nearby mountain 1 valley away, at night. Looked like a lava flow line, glowing red as it moved down the mountain. My place is pretty far from any of the fires. There is a dense fog of smoke everywhere today. Most people are not going to work because of the air quality. Hopefully the sea breeze kicks in today and the rest of the week and clears a lot of this out. I was sneezing all day yesterday. Felt like I had a bad cold. The sun was blood red. The orange sky makes everything look weird. Greens are brighter, etc. Surreal. It rained ash off and on all around the city. Some places had enough ash, that it looked like a light coat of snow that would swirl as cars drove by. I want the sun and fresh sea air back peace axeman
had a friend who was just there and she wrote: All the schools are closed and the air is so bad you can't leave your windows open and shouldn't spend much time outside. Let's just say San Diego children are bouncing off the walls. The ash is falling like snowflakes, the smell of smoke is heavy and the sun is a dull red ball in the sky when you can see it. The city is requesting water and electrical conservation. Tuesday isn't predicted to be much better. So I headed for the airport Monday night and waited for a flight home. The flights were running better than Sunday even though the smoke was worse. Air traffic control is out of LA since the Mirimar station was evacuated.
Here are a few other examples: Rotational period: The rotational period of any life-bearing planet must be within a few %. If the rotational period is too short, the temperature differences between night and day would be deadly to advanced life. If the rotational period is too fast, wind velocities would be just as deadly. Example: Jupiter has a rotational period of 10 hours and winds frequently reach 1000+ mph. Tectonic Activity (i.e. earthquakes): W/o earthquakes, nutrients essential for life on continents would erode and accumulate in oceans. If earthquake activity was to great, well you can figure that one out. Jupiter: A life-capable planet must have a large planet in the right location with the right size. Jupiter âcoincidentallyâ fits both. It is 2.5 times the mass of all other planets combined and it is in the best location between earth and the cometary cloud that surrounds the solar system. Because of this, Jupiter draws comets into itself (a la 7/94) or deflects comets right out of the solar system. If Jupiter was not there, we would not be here to even debate this subject. Jupiter/Saturn eccentricities: French astronomer Jaques Lasker determined that if the outer large planets were less irregular, then innter planetary motions would be so extreme that climatic instability would result.
I would love to hear the EXCUSE for a giraffe dropping a newborn 6 feet onto its head!! Maybe being dropped from six feet is really beneficial somehow right? What a joke. Axeman _____________________________________________ You need to be around birthing more. (Wanta volunteer?) In many, many cases the newborn needs a slap or shock of some kind to kind of wake up and start breathing. They used to slap a baby's bottom to jump start them. (Don't know if they still do that with the no spank policies.) Occasionally the placenta has a too thick wall and it takes some fairly violent action to break it. If it doesn't break then the newborn suffocates or drowns. The ones that do drown won't reproduce so they evolve away from that characteristic or they were designed with that flaw or for some other purpose, whichever you choose to believe. This is a family line characteristic but in all these many generations the flaw has not been bred (evolved or planned) away from. I don't have the answer to that problem yet. Also the lungs in some cases have too much fluid in them and certain procedures are required to expell that fluid or the baby drowns. This is normally caused by a backwards birth in which the contractions of the mother force the fluid into the lungs.