Man made god - Part 5 - god is intelligently designed

Nicholas Epley's paper can be found here:

Abstract:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/01/0908374106.abstract

Full paper:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/01/0908374106.full.pdf+html


Steven Pinker's article "Has religion made the World A safe place?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/has-religion-made-the-w...

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[MsReefmaster]

hey dpr use this quote of mine in your next video "maybe i could put my pp in your mouth!?"

[DarthMollutje]

Very nice and interesting conversation. Thanks dpr^^! 

[stendak]

Back on track in part 5, Thanks for the videos, very enlightening.

[NickD25]

@thegameulost Notice how you keep talking about humans... I honestly feel that we do not belong on this planet. Yeah I know it sounds crazy but if you look at it closely, every other species has the awareness (from where I don't know) of unity.

[thegameulost]

@NickD25

Guess God never took an engineering economics course.

[thegameulost]

@NickD25

Or something like the vestigial appendix in humans, which for their ancestors served to break down materials that the stomach couldn't digest, but for humans, only serves to get infected and threaten the survival of the organism. A perfect designer wouldn't leave that in place. Or vestigial body hair on humans, too sparse to insulate the way a full coating of fur could, and made unnecessary by our clothing. That just wastes the protein components used to build the hair strands.

[thegameulost]

@NickD25

It is also notable that many of these flaws are vestiges that suggest evolutionary connections between species, which makes sense in that the process of evolution can only work through gradual changes to what's already there. For example, if birds had four legs and wings, they could run fast AND fly, or could use the forelimbs as arms, but birds' wings use the Hox gene for front limbs. No omnipotent god would be subject to such limits.

[NickD25]

@thegameulost I would like to point out, however, that the so-called nature flaws serves a purpose in the bigger picture of things. There's only one thing that do puzzle me though and that's the human being... If you remove humans from earth, earth becomes a perfect ecosystem. And if you refer to early nations such as native american indians, they knew how to treat the earth so that it remains in the state of balance it was.

[JamesEzSecretChannel]

Too often I find that discussions between atheists, about religion, are sooo dull. It's usually just two "intellectuals" mentally masturbating all over one another in a shameful display of bukkake-esque conversation.

This interview did wonderfully in beating that stereotype, really brought some ideas to the table I hadn't thought of prior.

Liked, faved

[pickupthePWN]

Wannabe debaters in tha comments >:C