honorentheos wrote:Sure.
The author of the article at the link uses the analogy of opening up an old building that has been renovated multiple times over 100 years to what someone sees in the anatomy of a human being. As with the renovated building where the layout of plumbing, electrical, and other utilities and infrastructure modifications only make sense if one understands the history of the building, the human body has similar seemingly illogical inner workings. Like indoor plumbing being added years after original construction from a certain source at one time, a new addition with new electrical another, the replacement and abandonment of corroded iron pipes for new steel or copper, rerouting the plumbing to a new City water main...it isn't anything like how a new building would be laid out.
The article goes through a few examples where examining our early fish ancestors and their modern descendants serves as a blue print for the original design. By comparing the odd loops and locations of nerves, organs, and other systems in the human body that are like the inner workings of the 100 year old building, the "renovated" human body begins to make much more sense.
The evidence for evolution is strong across the entire field of biology. Some of the most compelling comes from examining living species. The fossil record is only one part. And if one dismisses evolution as the most likely explanation for how the diversity of life we see today came to be, one then has to contend with this other evidence. There's much more to it than suggesting the gaps in the fossil record or lack of conclusive explanations for certain biological functions such as sexual reproduction are missing so the theory can be ignore due to lack of evidence. One has to then explain the positive evidence for evolution. Like the inner workings of the 100 year old building.
I don't really see it that way, maybe it is because I spend everyday of the week in old piece of crap buildings.
I see it this way, and I'll use the current project I am managing as an example.
The building/s I am restoring or not that old 1920's...they are government owned. I deal everyday with architects, engineers, inspectors, CM's, and government people. These building have every problem you can imagine.
It is a fight from the first meeting, to the last approval to move in...and most of the team are very educated folks...very "smart" (I say this with reservation) people...and lets say "very intelligent designers? There is so much intelligent design put into new construction and old from inch to inch of the building...yet it is a mess, different folks with different ideas. And with all that it is a mess and struggle at almost every point.
Yet look at life...? I can not believe it is by accident. Creation is pretty cool, and to me this demands a designer, architect, engineer... etc...I choose God?
No way is this by accident.
Your example demands intelligent design, as does life.
