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"Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" is a fictional book in Douglas Adams' (PBUH) wonderful polyology, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
It was used as a title for a webpage listing multiple examples of what can only be called "dumb design".
The point is that if an intelligent designer designed all the features of living creatures, and was an all-knowing, wise, beneficent and competent designer, how come he came up with all these goofs?
The two competing hypotheses are,
1) that an intelligent designer designed this stuff because,
or
2) that evolution, the blind watchmaker, just happened to stumble into these ridiculous situations.
Evolution predicts that organisms will often be led up blind alleys, very often to the point of extinction. It has no look-ahead. No teleology. It cannot cross, by the well-known mechanism of the natural selection of heritable variations, large improbable 'distances' in the fitness landscape.
An omniscient intelligent designer could easily overcome the barriers that defeat evolution. Either he doesn't want to, can't, or is non-existent.
"Designers can go back to the drawing-board. Evolution is condemned to modify what is already there". - Richard Dawkins.
I don't know who claimed the design is based on intelligence ,perhaps he migh ne wrong or would have lack of understanding about attributes of Allah , Among 99 attributes of Allah , intelligent is not there ,it is 'The wise ' which encopases intelligent ,
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Evolution is called "the blind watchmaker" because it cannot see ahead. It stumbles around in the dark, with only the feedback of natural selection to shape the results of its fumbling about. It cannot make large, improbable changes to organisms. An unnatural intelligent designer would suffer no such limitations. It could see ahead and make fast, radical and improbable changes to organisms. What we see in nature reflects the blind watchmaker scenario. Things go up evolutionary blind alleys. They suffer from the "you can't get there from here" problem. They go extinct. Now unless the designer wants to fool us into thinking that evolution is at work by imitating the results we would expect from evolution (why would it do that? ), the natural world conforms to the evolutionary explanation and not the intelligently designed one.
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