Jul 29 2008
Herons Galore and Gawd’s Redundancy
The Great Super-Intelligent Designer Dude of the universe apparently had some favorite themes. True, there are millions of species on Earth: good thing the guy is beyond time and space, that’s quite a bit of designing.
Sill, it seems to me that if you design something, you work with a plan or goal. As an avid birdwatcher I wonder, why so many sparrows? Why so many herons? When my wife and I go boating the bird we are most likely to spy is the heron. Well, one of the heron and heron-like birds. There is the little blue, as photographed above, the great blue, the tri-color and the green. At least in my neck of the woods. I can add the great egret and the snowy egret to the list because, for all practical purposes, they belong in the same class: wading birds that use their long necks and spear-like bills to feed on small fish and amphibians.
Couldn’t the great gawd of nature have mixed things up a bit more? Why not a wading lizard, like a long-legged alligator (which we see in such great numbers they’ve gotten boring) that uses it’s spear-like tail to impale its lunch and then flip it into a toothless mouth? That would be neat.
When you get into the nitty-gritty of what actually exists in nature, as well as imaginatively contemplating what could exist, evolution makes a hell of a lot more sense.
But making sense is not enough. A valid theory must make predictions. And evolutionary theory does that. How has it scored on these tests? I wouldn’t give it an A+, but it is certainly in no danger of flunking. A-/B+ maybe.
The gawd of intelligent design, on the other hand, he’s been held back a grade so many times the dude can’t even get his knees beneath his desk. It’s time to crown this guy with a dunce cap.
