Stealth evangelists
Oh honestly.
These have been inserted in copies of Your Inner Fish in various bookstores. I seriously doubt the folks who inserted them actually bothered to read the book.
George Gallup forsooth! It so happens he was my uncle. He wasn’t a statistician, he was a psychologist. He hired people to do the statistics. If he said that silly thing then more fool he.
“Man cannot being to make an eye”
Dafuq is a camera if not an eye? Hell we’ve got cameras now that can process higher fps than organic eyes do…
Gallup’s you’re uncle, Well then Bob’s you’re uncle, or not.
He can’t be. I consulted a genealogist and a statistician and they assured me that the odds of any given individual having George Gallup as their uncle purely by chance are astronomical.
As further proof I ask readers to take this simple test:
Do you have an uncle called George Gallop?
Yes
No
(check one)
I trust that settles the matter.
… And by astronomical I mean infinitesimal. The devil made me type that to deceive you.
Actually, man would probably design a somewhat more functional eye. As a work of engineering, it’s a mess. Why would an all knowing god make such an obviously muddled job of it?
And by man, I actually mean woman. ;-)
Dawkins likes to point out that eyes have evolved multiple times. These dweebs are stuck on Paley’s watch.
They are so isolated that the ‘Emperor is naked’ questions just don’t occur to them. And they are purdah’d away from any source that might make them think:
‘Who designed this amazing, unimaginable designer?’
‘Since no single person designed the entirety of a watch/eye in one act. Since both are made up of many parts which had OTHER functions previously. Why would anyone use them as examples of divine fiat?
Jeeeeeez!
The eye did not form by ‘mere chance’, but by natural selection.
Religiots have asked me what they assume is the ‘killer’ question. “What use is half an eye?” the answer, is of course is that half, or even 10% of an eye, ie a few light sensitive cells is very useful in evading predators.
Many years ago when I was in a religious instruction class at my Grammar School (private high school) one smart arse asked the obvious question “Well, who made God?” That’s the real killer question.
If that’s how they think evolution occurs, then they might as well be cartoons.