Since blood filteration machines the size of a room are the only substitute for someone with kidney failure, Is "nature" Smarter than us?
How can something unintelligent and compeletely random make something that even us humans with remarkable intellect Fail miserably at?
Same goes for eyesight, hearing, touching (Not that kind!), the human heart.....etc.
2007-03-19 08:03:01 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-19 08:07:13 · update #1
How many megapixels does your eye have?
Nature has had hundreds of millions of years to design and perfect a kidney. We've been working on it for a few decades.
2007-03-19 08:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
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2016-09-22 03:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by Daphne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are simply wrong. Natural Selection is the furthest thing from random. You should learn about it sometime.
Every natural selection event ( a birth or death ) has the potential of adding one bit of complexity from the environment into the biological system. There are billions of organisms on this earth ( actually many millions times that I am being grossly conservative) . They have lasted for billions of generations. That yields quintillion's of potential selection events. Even if one restricts oneself to mankind's direct ancestry one still is left with quadrillions of selection events.
Even with very gross inefficiency this still leaves room for enormous amounts of accrued complexity.
2007-03-19 08:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Give me a good design team and I can get an artificial kidney down to the size of a garden pea in 10,000 years. Natural selection needed 100,000,000 years to get the mammalian kidney to where it is today.
2007-03-19 08:16:06 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Let me see if I understand...
What you're saying is that because man has not yet been able to replicate biology, therefore there must be a supernatural being?
Does it then follow, in your mind, that if someday man is able to replicate the function of the kidneys that god doesn't exist? or that we have then become gods?
FWIW- the Liver might be a better example. It's been said that there are a billion chemical interactions in the human liver every second.
2007-03-19 08:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by Morey000 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ah human arrogance.... knows no boundaries doesn't it? To think that your way of thinking is the only thing that could possibly be the "truth" or the only way things can function, and if it's remarkable it's somehow the actions of an omnipotent creator being.
Here's my answer: Don't worry about it... use your religion, instead, to cultivate compassion, altruism, wisdom etc. and to help put an end to suffering and destruction of the environment. If you do that, THEN I'll be impressed.
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2007-03-19 08:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Nothing completely random did it, very few things are completely random anyway so find a new argument. Though an unintelligent rock is more intelligent than you.
2007-03-19 08:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Incremental microsteps. Each improvement made the whole slightly more viable, allowing it to edge out the previous version. Given enough time, and there was plenty of time, these microsteps add up to a vast improvement.
2007-03-19 14:20:22 · answer #8 · answered by Phil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your kidneys were to fail, would you and other 'true' believers use such blood filtration machines to save your lives? I assume that you are not a complete hypocrite, and that you would much prefer to die, as something as infallible as humans designed such machines.
2007-03-19 08:14:39 · answer #9 · answered by Fred 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm to the point where I just want to stand all the elementary school science teachers in this country to the wall and shoot them for failing to make people like this repeat third grade till they get it right.
2007-03-19 08:14:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋