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Author Topic:   Why is the Intelligent Designer so inept?
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Message 103 of 352 (478409)
08-15-2008 12:40 AM


Topic drift and/or abandonment alert
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The topic concerns scientific, philosophical, theological etc. considerations of bad design. All message content should connect up to that theme.
This is the warning. Departure from these guidelines are subject to suspension.
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Message 157 of 352 (478564)
08-17-2008 4:40 PM


Topic seems to have gone bad
Closing it down.
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There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
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Message 292 of 352 (508613)
05-15-2009 4:24 AM


Repeat of message 1
He's either an idiot, or for a deity, remarkably hard-up when it comes to paying for design plans. He uses the same basic body plan for fish, quadrupeds, bipeds, birds, etc. Why should us bipeds have to put up with a skeletel structure that designed for walking on all fours? Did God force us into second-hand body-plans post-fall, just so that we could enjoy the delights of back-pain?
Why do we have sub-optimal eye design, especially compared to the octopus? Why do we have such stupid "programming" restrictions in the articulation of our arms? Did we not itch in that impossible-to-reach spot on our backs, pre-fall? Why are our genitals so exposed to damage?
Why do we hurt, damage and even kill ourselves when we fall over? Was the ground softer pre-fall? Why do our bones break, limbs dislocate, etc? Why do we need to eat? Why do we need to breathe?
If you can point out to me the guy responsible for all of this, I will not bow down and worship... I will laugh becasue he has made one hell of a joke. As an exercise in what physical laws can produce, the human life is a stroke of genius. As an exanmple of what a deity can spontaneously 'create', it's pathetic...
I also note this topic is in the "Theological Creationism and ID" forum. I'm rather fuzzy on the purpose of that forum, but I interpret it to be a "Why did God do it that way" sort of thing.
Anyhow, try to use the guidence of the above for future messages in this topic.
Recent messages seem to be pretty remote from the topics intent. A lot (all?) of the recently explored themes would better belong elsewhere.
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There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
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Message 352 of 352 (510222)
05-29-2009 12:57 AM
Reply to: Message 351 by traste
05-29-2009 12:13 AM


The stupidity seems to have bottomed out - Closing time
My impression is that you have just dragged a dubious quality topic down to its lowest point. Not a good thing to be doing.
I've thought before, about closing this topic. Now's the time.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
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