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Which brings us to back to another question, "Who created God?" or how did the starter of our life (Earth) as well as possibly others come to be? One thing that I have a problem with your "something out of nothing" theory is we were given useless parts to our bodies and some are still unexplainable.
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Like the appendix? Surely the fact that we have useless parts of our body would go more aginst an "intelligent" designer? Why would a designer waste time giving us useless features? The appendix is more than likely an evolutionary relic. i.e. it once served a purpose, but no longer does, but it still remains in our genetic code, as it does not harm to us.
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Nipples. Of course for women to do their duties but why for men? I'm sure if there's an answer it's gene related.
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Again, why would an intelligent designer give men nipples? It is actually relitively late on in our embryonic development that our bodies "decide" to be built as male or female. By this stage, the "seed would already have been sewn" for male nipples. It is more effiecient for males and females to be as physically alike as possible in this sense.
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What about the construction of our bodies period?
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what about it?
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Did we have to have two eyes?
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Two eyes always us to percieve depth. With only a single eye we would only see things in two dimensions. We would not be able to tell how far away that hunting tiger is. Surely this is advantageous?
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Did we have to have 5 fingers?
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Why this exact number? Who knows? If we had four would you ask the same question? How about six? Presumably this number is due to an equilibrium found by evolution. Too few, and we would not be dexteretous enough to properly weild tools. Too many, and they would just get in the way.
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Why do we have fingernails (for a greater purpose than to pick and scratch our body)?
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I presume you mean that "picking and scratching our body" is a worthless edeveaur, picturing a lazy fat ass in his underwear in front of the tv. Yet, to primitive man, picking and scratching his body was a very benificial thing. It got rid of ticks and various parasites, and was also a source of food. I would imagine that fingernails are also the remnants of claws, which of course have their obvious advantages. And besides, even to this day fingernails are usefull. They give our finger hard tips.
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Why is my nose in the center of my face instead of on my forehead? Ridiculous you say! What's normal until you see the first human being?
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I fail to see where you are going with this argument. Obviously, what we percieve is normal, is what we see everyday! Surely that is the very definition of normal? Again this is like the five fingers question...even if we
did have noses on our foreheads, you could equally likely have asked, why not in the middle of our face? It has to go somewhere. But bear in mind, that we didn't always have "foreheads" as such. The forehead is the result of a larger skull to accomodate a larger brain. there is no advantage to MOVING the nose, to this newly created patch of skin. Where it currently is, is far more useful. It is easier to sniff the ground/anything else, and it is right above our mouths, allowing us to smell things before we decide to eat them (could be very advantageous) plus it is close to the mouth so that it is easier for the two to be connected.
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So if we saw a human with the characteristics I described you could not deem that impossible soley because if you believe that is impossible then you must believe that "someone" designed you with a picture in mind? Still waiting on the gene/DNA answer though.......
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Again, lost in your argument. I don't believe anyone designed me with a picture in mind.