One week after my class finished the evolution section of biology in ninth grade, I overhead some of my classmates saying, “But, it all seems too perfect to have just evolved.”
And, indeed, we can take a look at some marvelously well-adapted species, such as an Indonesian mantis that looks exactly like a flower. It blends in perfectly.
If the “truly complex and extraordinary” parts of life are best explained through intelligent intervention, what about the seemingly useless parts? It makes little sense that a powerful being capable of creating the right things would also create, well, wrong things.
Enter vestigial structures.
Why do we still have the appendix? It doesn’t do much, and you only notice it if you’re an unlucky fellow who gets appendicitis.
Why do we still have wisdom teeth? All they do is cause pain to the unlucky teenagers who have to get them removed.
Why do whales have leg bones?
Why are some fruit flies born with wings that are too small to aid in flight?
These can be summed into one question: Is the intelligent designer capable of making mistakes?
“These can be summed into one question: Is the intelligent designer capable of making mistakes?”
Perhaps. Men with prostate problems probably think so.
Another possibility is that the Designer deliberately made things imperfect in this world so that we can appreciate perfection in the next. After all, if all you ever know is perfection, you can’t appreciate it.
But that’s just speculation.
The important point is that, even if “mistakes” are made, the doesn’t negate ID. You wouldn’t say that cars or computers are not intelligently designed just because engineering mistakes were made in their design and production, would you? Of course not.
No. If there is something we see as useless, it is only because our perception is too limited to understand God's overall plan. No matter how stupid, worthless, or downright evil, it's all part of that grand plan.
So shut your mouth and quit questioning the dogma, blasphemer.