"Human Errors" by Nathan Lents- Straw Man Humping at its Finest- Opening Comment
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I borrowed a copy of "Human Errors" from the C/W MARS library network to see what the fuss was all about. Lents seems to think that humans are supposed to be perfect. That all opposition to evolutionism claims that humans are perfect. That is a major straw man that Lents humps throughout the book.
Even YECs have an explanation for the observed deterioration- the Fall form Grace that led to genetic entropy.
Michael Behe explains it with respect to ID- random changes creep in and either break, blunt or damage genes.
A broken vitamin C gene is not evidence for common ancestry.
Lents chokes on the fact that we have our airway linked to swallowing. We need that connection in order to talk.
Lents is blind to the fact that our eyes are not wired backwards. Our eye configuration is actually optimal. We have athletes that can hit a small round ball coming at them at 100MPH.
Of course Lents sez that nature invented eyes- total untestable bullshit, Nathan. So much for you caring about science.
Oh, and that recurrent laryngeal nerve- the one that actually innervates along its alleged circuitous route.
It's strange that this guy railed against Dr. Behe's claim that random mutations mess things up and then presents the evidence that supports Behe.
More to follow as I read through this trope- Nature Did It, I tell You!!!!111!!1!
I borrowed a copy of "Human Errors" from the C/W MARS library network to see what the fuss was all about. Lents seems to think that humans are supposed to be perfect. That all opposition to evolutionism claims that humans are perfect. That is a major straw man that Lents humps throughout the book.
Even YECs have an explanation for the observed deterioration- the Fall form Grace that led to genetic entropy.
Michael Behe explains it with respect to ID- random changes creep in and either break, blunt or damage genes.
A broken vitamin C gene is not evidence for common ancestry.
Lents chokes on the fact that we have our airway linked to swallowing. We need that connection in order to talk.
Lents is blind to the fact that our eyes are not wired backwards. Our eye configuration is actually optimal. We have athletes that can hit a small round ball coming at them at 100MPH.
Of course Lents sez that nature invented eyes- total untestable bullshit, Nathan. So much for you caring about science.
Oh, and that recurrent laryngeal nerve- the one that actually innervates along its alleged circuitous route.
It's strange that this guy railed against Dr. Behe's claim that random mutations mess things up and then presents the evidence that supports Behe.
More to follow as I read through this trope- Nature Did It, I tell You!!!!111!!1!
posted by Joe G @ 1:21 PM
4 Comments:
At 4:39 PM,
JV said…
Lents chokes on the fact that we have our airway linked to swallowing. We need that connection in order to talk.
Why does swallowing have to occupy the same physical pathway as breathing? That's the question.
Lents is blind to the fact that our eyes are not wired backwards. Our eye configuration is actually optimal. We have athletes that can hit a small round ball coming at them at 100MPH.
But some other species have much greater visual accuity than humans. So humans' visual configuration is not 'optimal'.
At 4:58 PM,
Joe G said…
We need that connection in order to talk.
But some other species have much greater visual accuity than humans.
And yet they couldn't hit a 100mph fastball to save their lives. The configuration of our eye is the same as that of eagles- an animal with much greater visual acuity.
At 1:57 AM,
JV said…
We need that connection in order to talk.
Are you saying it isn't possible to design a creature which has a windpipe and vocal system completely separate from the digestive system?
And yet they couldn't hit a 100mph fastball to save their lives. The configuration of our eye is the same as that of eagles- an animal with much greater visual acuity.
Birds don't play baseball. Read the Wikipedia article on Bird vision which includes this:
"Birds can resolve rapid movements better than humans, for whom flickering at a rate greater than 50 light pulse cycles per second appears as continuous movement. Humans cannot therefore distinguish individual flashes of a fluorescent light bulb oscillating at 60 light pulse cycles per second, but budgerigars and chickens have flicker or light pulse cycles per second thresholds of more than 100 light pulse cycles per second.[citation needed] A Cooper's hawk can pursue agile prey through woodland and avoid branches and other objects at high speed; to humans such a chase would appear as a blur."
Which means they can see a moving baseball better than a human.
At 9:13 AM,
Joe G said…
Are you saying it isn't possible to design a creature which has a windpipe and vocal system completely separate from the digestive system?
Only a fool would make it more complicated than it has to be..
And AGAIN, moron, the birds have then SAME backwards facing retina that we do.
You must be retarded to read what I say, ignore it and prattle on anyway.
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