On 12 Feb 2015, at 20:00, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> The light sensitive cells in the retina of our eyes are on the
wrong side, so we can't have been produced by a intelligent
designer. A very very stupid designer maybe.
> Unless God created the cuttlefish in its own image, as
cuttlefishes, octopi, and squids have the light sensitive cells in
the retina of their eyes are on the right side. That's the problem
with the human, they assert that God prefers them to the other
creatures.
It's not just humans, the light sensitive cells of ALL vertebrate
animals are on the wrong side. The worst human designer on the
planet wouldn't do anything that dumb, and certainly would not keep
making the exact same mistake again and again many millions of
times. If God exists He is a imbecile.
There are other possibilities:
- God created the invertebrates, and the vertebrates were created by
something or someone else.
- God created the invertebrates, but was distracted when creating the
vertebrates. perhaps inebriated by some divine perfumes.
- God created all animals, and put the eyes nerves on the "wrong" side
for a good reason, which our own stupidity prevents the finding,
currently. After all our seeing is rather efficacious.
- God is not a person, so that "imbecile" does not apply to it.
Also, it is not clear why you say that God made the mistake many
millions of times. He might have done it only one time, and then
duplicated it. If your kids make 5 spelling mistakes in a text, and
then makes 10 photo-copies of that text, would you say that he made 50
spelling mistakes?
But with computationalism, there might be a sense to say that God
was ... hmm, imbecile is too strong and provocative, let us say
innocent.
God created the number 0, and its successors, and He said ... OK.
Then he told the numbers: add. And He said ... OK.
Then he told the numbers: multiply, and He said ... Oops!
The reason is, if I need to say again, that logic + numbers + add +
multiply leads to *all* computations: all those which stop and all
those which do not stop.
Bruno
John K Clark
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