What are some of the problems with the intelligent design argument?
There are dozens: • If an “intelligent designer” designed the world, then why are there so many unintelligent designs? For example, most of the people in the world have imperfect eyes; they either wear glasses or corrective lenses. This is not intelligent design. Another example: people often get food stuck in their windpipe because the trachea and the esophagus cross in the throat region instead of remaining separate. This is not intelligent design. Or this: the tube leading from the urinary bladder in a man passes through the prostate on its way out of the body. As a result, when the prostate swells, as it does for large numbers of older men, it causes pain and discomfort. This is a poor design. The tube should have passed next to the organ, not through it. • Then there are vestigial organs; these are organs that have no earthly function in the body. For example, many cave animals are blind, but still have vestiges of eyes that cannot see. Snakes have one nonfunctioning lung and bird
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- If they are being made aware of intelligent design, but are not being told there are gaps and problems in intelligent design, are they being misled, Professor Behe?
- Is that similar to intelligent designs claim that science presently cannot tell us the source of design in nature?
- Not including intelligent design?
