My Wittenburg Moment

1. Is your designer/creator a natural entity or a supernatural entity? If he/she/it is a natural entity, and if it is your contention that all life is the product of creation, then who created the creator/designer?

2. If your designer/creator is a supernatural entity who "works in mysterious ways beyond our comprehension," is it not illogical to discuss this creator/designer within the context of a science classroom or scientific discussion seeing as how science is the study of natural, observable phenomena?

3. On that note, do you have observable and falsifiable evidence of supernatural phenomena?

4. Is extinction the product of faulty design? If so, is the creator/designer incompetent, lazy or both?

5. Why would the designer/creator make harmful organisms like viruses and bacteria and then design our bodies to be susceptible to them? Is this a design flaw or was it intentional? Furthermore, why do these organisms develop into stronger, vaccine- and antibody-resistant strains? Is the creator/designer a sadist who enjoys watching us suffer and shuffle to create new medicines? Is he/she/it on the payroll of the pharmaceutical industry? If everything "has to have a purpose" as you contend, what is the purpose of this?

6. What is the creator/designer's purpose in birth defects, childhood cancers, juvenile diabetes, pediatric AIDS, inherited mental illnesses, developmental disorders, and other such natural phenomena that affect children? Again, is the designer/creator a sadist who likes or desires for children to suffer, or is the designer/creator just incompetent? I know many of you will say, "the designer/creator's ways are his/her/it's own and we are not to question it," to which I respond:

7. If the designer/creator did not intend for us to ask such questions, why did he/she/it design us with the ability to do so?

Moving Right Along...

8. If, as many creationists/ID proponents contend, that evolution is impossible because a "complex organism cannot function without all of its component parts," explain how a complex system like the human body is able to function normally without an appendix, which is one of its component parts.

9. Why do you contend that complexity must indicate design? Ice crystals and snowflakes form randomly in the right conditions and yet they develop very intricate, unique geometric patterns, one might even suggest that the patterns are....complex. Are they? Better yet:

10. Define "complex."

11. Many of you are fond of saying that life "couldn't have happened by chance." Why not? Lots of things on Earth and in the universe happen by chance, why is it so far-fetched to assume that life on earth did as well? Is yours an assumption of impossibility or improbability? Remember, improbable things happen all the time.

12. Many of you accept that your creator/designer allows for micro-evolution (small changes), but not macro-evolution (major changes) If evolutionary mechanisms can produce small changes over a short time, why can't numerous small changes over millions of years translate to major changes? Better yet, why would a creator/designer need to allow for changes? Did he/she/it know that he/she/it had a flawed design that would need to adapt to changing conditions? Why not just design it with the modifications it needs to begin with? Better yet, why create/design a planet with changing conditions? Why not just create/design a planet with static conditions, thus negating the need for adaptation? The creator/designer does not seem very efficient.

13. When we observe something happen in nature, we assume that it happens by natural, explainable means. For example, if we see water freezing into ice, we do not assume that any kind of supernatural power is involved, we assume that the temperature is low enough to freeze water. To assume such is only logical. Why then must we assume that life itself happened through supernatural means even though supernatural phenomena have never been scientifically observed while natural phenomena have? I will, of course, retract this question (and a BUNCH of others) if you can answer positively and honestly to question 3.

If I have more questions, I'll post them.