Greg Tyrelle » Science http://www.tyrelle.net/weblog Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:48:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 No design for aging http://www.tyrelle.net/weblog/2010/05/13/ http://www.tyrelle.net/weblog/2010/05/13/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 00:08:29 +0000 Greg Tyrelle http://www.tyrelle.net/?p=13 For the most part I ignore the debate about whether or not god exists as it is evident that there is no evidence for such claims, so why post on the topic now ? The point is not to join that debate — as amusing as the debate tends to be –  but  to add what I consider another  argument in favour of no god or gods existing. Intelligent design which posits the idea of a supernatural creator as an alternative explanation for the presence of life is very much a contradiction in terms. Anyone with the slightest understanding of biology will tell you: if homo sapiens was designed then, it was not very intelligently designed.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume there really is a designer and wonder what that creator had in mind when they designed human beings to age. Aging is a horrible disease that results in the gradual degradation of bodily systems and eventual death. Osteoporosis, blindness, hearing loss and neurodegenerative disease are just a few ailments of old age. Why would any creator design an organism with an expiry date, then allow that organism to decline towards that date, in horrible, awful ways ? It is inconceivable that this is intelligent design. No reasonable person can possibly believe it.

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