Posted: Apr 10, 2020 1:56 am
Rumraket wrote:Wortfish wrote:laklak wrote:He's a tricksy cunt, this Intelligent Designer. He purposely designs things to look exactly like they evolved through random mutation and natural selection. He even makes things like the recurrent laryngeal nerve to really fuck with us. He designed smallpox, and bubonic plague, and dental caries, and cancer, and a host of other things that would, to the uninitiated, be proof that none of it was actually designed! A Mighty Designer is our Designer!
Show me one molecular machine that looks like it evolved through random mutation and natural selection.
All of them. Things produced by mutation and selection are what things produced by mutation and selection look like. Hence all the molecular machines known from biology look like they evolved through mutation and selection.
Except that, as Behe points out, selection either keeps functional systems in place, or it breaks them when the environment requires disposing of them. Natural selection is blind, and so lacks the foresight to build a complex molecular machine.