Design evidence # 231: taste buds

My cat's taste buds are so exacting and demanding that she'll only eat the very best (Fancy Feast), and even only four of the flavors are good enough. God must really like cats!--Percy

There's a couple answers to this.First, you're actually just restating your initial point. Man takes delight in taste, only God could create the ability to experience delight, therefore taste is evidence of God. There are many other examples: music, art, humor, etc. The key question is whether our ability to experience delight could only have been provided by God.It's been explained how taste can be placed within an evolutionary context. That doesn't mean it actually happened that way, it only means that taste is consistent with evolution.So how do you choose between the two alternatives? If you're being scientific then you look at which one is better supported by the evidence. Evidence of actions by God have traditionally been problematic. We can study evolution in action in the present and project the understanding we develop onto historical scenarios such as the evolution of taste. How does one gather evidence of God in action from which to build up an understanding of how he works in order to do the same thing?Second, it's important to note that one of the problems with using good things (such as delight) as evidence *for* God is that bad things automatically become evidence *against* God.--Percy

Let us postulate two alternatives consistent with the presence of good and evil in the world today:

• A cold impersonal universe where there is no God, and whatever happens, good or bad, has no rhyme or reason to it.
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• A universe where God and the devil do battle. God does good, the devil does evil.

What experiment, test or evidence would enable you to tell which type of universe you were living in?--Percy

I'm not sure I can agree with this way of expressing it. Cells have always interacted chemically with their environment, and so in that sense one could argue that evolution has been guided by taste, but to call evolution a result of senses like taste seems a bit of a stretch.--Percy

--Percy PS - Of course, turnabout is fair play - he wouldn't, would he?PPS - Apologies to Bugs...