Can someone please describe to me the difference between evolution and negligent design?

Question

Nothing upsets me when I read the question fully and understand what is being asked

Answer 1

It's the difference between biology and the Iraq war.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what negligent design would be. In legal terms, it usually refers to design of equipment or material that is deficient, and causes injury, and is not repaired by the manufacturer - i.e. bad design.

Examples might be a car that has a tendency to catch fire when you turn the ignition, or a bike helmet that breaks into sharp shrapnel when it undergoes hard impacts.

Looked at this way, assuming that there is a 'designer' who created the living organisms we see today, then you could make a case that the designer is negligent. In the design of the human body alone, there are any number of poor design choices - such as the lack of room in the jaw for the wisdom teeth to come in properly, or the fact that our air intake passage crosses over our food intake passage, allowing us to choke to death on our food.

Our eyeballs are a mess, with floatie bits in the eye and a vision reception area that's all warped by where the nervous output is - it has to be corrected by a software fix in the brain before it even makes sense.

Our lower back is woefully unsuited for a bipedal lifestyle - obviously just kitted together from some parts the designer had left over from all those quadrupedal mammals he made.

One of the worst design choices is the pelvis. For a species with such a large braincase (one of our defining features in fact), the structure of the human female pelvis is incredibly poorly done - with the pubis bone where it is, it constricts the birth canal and makes giving birth painful and even life-threateningly dangerous for both mother and infant. Any number of systems in use in other designs, including the pelvis system used in birds and some dinosaurs would have been a much better choice.

So, a case could definitely be made that if there is a designer, that designer was incompetent or negligent, and we should put together a class-action lawsuit against him as soon as possible.

However, if those features are the result of evolutionary descent (i.e. lungs modified from swim bladder in early fish/amphibians, pelvis and lumbar vertebral design inherited from quadrupedal mammalian ancestors with smaller braincases) then we don't have much of a case.

Answer 3

Evolution: a process in which one thing turns into another thing over some period of time, maybe 5 or 10 years or maybe even longer. A one cell, becomes a two cell, etc. Until a complex, nearly human being takes shape. These are made up of thousands and thousands of the one cells all put together.

Negligent design: A man is made. A woman is made. And from there they devolve into what you see today. These are known in other Galaxies as devolutioners. Which also answers the question as to UFO's, they came, they saw, they left.

Answer 4

Evolution works in a forward manner. Mutations happen, some mutations are carried into the next generation in greater percentages than other mutations. Eventually there is enough distinction between 'families' that one is classified as a different species.

Intelligent design works backwards. It assumes the end result is the only possibility and works back from there to prove that it couldn't have happened randomly.

That's the catch. Any specific outcome has a low probability of occurring. But there will always be an outcome.

Answer 5

Sure. Evolution is a mindless theory full of holes and paradoxes that has to defy physics, geology,chemistry, laws of gravity, laws of thermal dynamics, laws of bio-genesis, biochemistry, logic, and generally all good science to be believed. It is the faith doctrine of secular humanist that wish to do away with all religions. It is to be implemented throughout secular schools for indoctrination instead of critical thinking.
Negligent design would be that God made everything and then punted.

Answer 6

I would strongly suggest obtaining material from both sides and read it first hand for yourself. It is good to allow these people to present their own ideas in their words without being misrepresented or maligned unfairly. A really good one for intellient desing is Darwins black box by Michael Behe There is also another book titled darwin strikes back. then for the other side you might want to look at Charles darwins origin species. there are other good current works as well. It is relly beneficial and scholarly if you allow people to present thier own ideas in their own words. william Dembski has a few good book out to and he is gaining acceptance since producing a complex specified information filter. ID theorist and biophysicist Cornelius Hunter has written in Darwin's god of the heavy usage of theological argument suggesting there is a huge God-focus by Darwinists since Darwin to the present.

Answer 7

Negligent design may or may not be criminal, but probably actionable. I guess the question for the court is whether the designer had malice, criminal intent, or was just incompetent.

Answer 8

Don't you think we've got enough people trying to be funny?

Answer 9

God created the world....I'm glad it upsets you..

" By the Word of the Lord were the heavens created, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.... For HE SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE; HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST". (psalm 33:6-9)

Answer 10

Both terms are an impossibility with God.