Deliberately Crafted Artefact

When archaeologists find a flint at a dig site, with a particular shape, a sharp edge, and a smooth hand-grip neatly chiselled, do they not conclude that this is a deliberately crafted artefact, with clear evidence of intentional order and arrangement, with the result that the item is thereafter kept on display in a museum?

Notice the accompanying illustrations of the arrangement of teeth within the mouth. Do you suppose that each tooth originally came about over considerable time one tooth after another, coincidentally growing in the precisely ideal location; or by contrast do you think they were all created spontaneously in a single spurt of fortuitous growth? 

Does not the arrangement, placement, width, length, quality, and usefulness of each tooth indicate intentional design? 

Or did each tooth just happen to sprout up (in a long series of serendipitous events) in the appropriate place, with its specific quality of hardness, its specially fashioned sharp (but not over-sharp) edge and its ideal matching size; and in the course of time this sprouting activity managed to complete the familiar half-moon arrangement within the upper mouth cavity, including pairs of teeth that happen to match, tooth-by-tooth, on both sides of the mouth; and then, in the same fashion, the lower-jaw teeth sprang up in neat succession one after another, to complement their counterparts in the upper jaw?

A Billion Consecutive Serendipitous Events?

Does that sound like "sheer luck" to you? 

Did these features happen by chance, consecutively, over considerable time, so that they could be "selected" as superior, in favour of other growths (as Darwin's theory of "natural selection" proposes)? Or is it more reminiscent of good foresight and coordinated planning?

Evolutionary scientists respond to the above argumentation by asserting that this arrangement of human teeth came about by "a genetically programmed pattern" . . . ! 

The question therefore has to be asked: Where did this "programming" come from to produce this ideal arrangement?

Further Questions

But the questions do not end here. How does the Darwinian argument account for, not only the above, but also for the convenient situation of:

• no teeth at birth ideally suited for breast-feeding,
• baby-teeth during the early years of immaturity and rapid growth, then
• adult teeth for the “finished product”?

Does evolution possess qualities capable of coordinated planning and purposeful design?

Technical Note (sorry, not for Technophobes)

The above heading 'A Billion Consecutive Serendipitous Events' may appear at first to be an exaggeration. However, note that the average human tooth is composed of 53 x 10^21 atoms; that is, a single tooth. 

This is a number with 21 zeros following it; in other words: 53 thousand billion billion (53 000 000 000 000 000 000 000). Each one of these atoms would therefore require to be, sequentially, in the correct place and possess all of the many precise properties to collectively form this one tooth.

Plus, of course, this same serendipitous arrangement would need to be repeated for each of the remaining teeth, except that the "arrangement" needs to be slightly altered to suit the purpose of each (different) individual tooth.

Does this indicate intentional design to you?