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Primitive tools are said to be "evidence" of intentional order and arrangement, and are displayed in museums.
What evidence does the far superior crafting of the human tooth provide? Does this not indicate intentional order and design?
Note how the arrangements for upper and lower teeth, and also for left-side/right-side teeth, happen to match, tooth-by-tooth.
Some people have a beautiful set of teeth, as for example this young woman pictured here.
But how did the human body come to have this specific arrangement of ivories?
Deliberately Crafted Artefact
The answer to the above question can be illustrated this way: When an archaeologist finds a flint at a dig site, with a particular shape, a sharp edge, and a smooth hand-grip neatly chiselled, does he or she not conclude that this is a deliberately crafted artefact, with clear evidence of intentional order and arrangement. And the item is thereafter kept on display in a museum?
Notice the accompanying illustrations of the arrangement of teeth within the mouth. Did each tooth originally come about over considerable time one tooth after another, coincidentally growing in the precisely ideal location; or by contrast were they all created spontaneously in a single spurt of fortuitous growth? Evolutionists say they resulted from millions of years of gradually improving conditions that finally gave rise to the ideal characteristic layout for all humans.
Would you agree that the placement, width, length, rigidity, quality, and the usefulness of each tooth indicates intentional design?
And the arrangement is an impressive example of development that is "fit for purpose":
Each tooth design has a designated function to handle the grinding/cutting/tearing of all types of food. And the succession of teeth from front to back is clearly by intentional order and arrangement:
- The incisors, the front teeth, cut and tear the food.
- The canine teeth next to them are strong and sharply pointed to assist in piercing and separating food.
- Then the premolars, further back, with their flat but ridged surface, efficiently crush and grind down to prepare a bolus of food ready for the digestive process.
- Finally, the strong molars at the back, six upper and six lower, employ the power of the jaw to grind and chew the food into smaller, more digestible pieces.
Now consider:
The theory of "natural selection" supposes that features are already available in order to be selected.
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 also, in the same fashion, the lower-jaw teeth sprang up in neat succession one after another, that are different, yet they complete their counterparts in the upper jaw — making them functionally complementary? — See also the article 'Fingertip Sensitivity — Calibrated or Fortuitous?'
A Billion Consecutive Serendipitous Events?
Does it seem reasonable that these many features happened by chance, consecutively, over considerable time, so that they could be "selected" as superior, in favour of other growths (as the 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?
A computer programmer can spend months or even years on a single, relatively simple, application, tracking down and fixing "bugs" in the code, to finally arrive at an adequate product. (For example, note this list of bugs in a well-known computer game. See also the section below that describes The Cyberpunk 2077 Computer Game "Bugs".)
But computer-designed applications are the product of "intentional" design, created with a specific purpose in mind and managed from inception to completion in a coordinated manner to achieve the desired outcome.
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 foresight, 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 estimated to be 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 and molecules is required to be 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 every individual tooth, with the "arrangement" being slightly altered to suit the purpose of each tooth, depending on its required function.
Does this indicate intentional design to you?
All the Body's Multiple Functions
And this same argumentation can be repeated for all of the human body's multiple functions: food digestion, reproduction, immune system, repair, blood circulation, respiration, brain signal transport, endocrine activity, integumentary (skin) functions, waste disposal, lymphatic system, sensory system, metabolic processes, etc . . . .
And this requires organising 7 octillion atoms (the total number of atoms in the average human body). This is a number followed by 27 zeros, or 7 x 10^27, or, seven thousand trillion trillion, or 7 billion billion billion.
Or, put another way:
7 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Proponents of evolution continue to search for the elusive method they believe was used to organise this incredible quantity of atoms, as they assume that this was not orchestrated or intended.
Does the above argumentation not sound like multi-level intentional planning to you?
The Cyberpunk 2077 Computer Game "Bugs"
Is it easy to create a complex computer game?
One notable example of a considerable programming effort that resulted in an application full of bugs is the launch of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Developed by CD Projekt Red, the game was highly anticipated and had a massive development budget and team behind it. However, upon its release in December 2020, it was plagued with numerous bugs and performance issues.
The problems were so severe that Sony even removed the game from its PlayStation™ Store for a period, and CD Projekt Red offered refunds to dissatisfied customers. Despite the extensive effort and resources invested in its development, the game required numerous patches and updates to address the myriad of issues reported by players.
This example highlights how even significant programming efforts can result in applications with multiple serious problems. Hence, proper testing and quality assurance processes are required to be thoroughly implemented to ultimately provide a finished product.
This underscores the dilemma of the evolutionist, who is faced, not merely with immense complexity, but with organised complexity and intentional order and arrangement.
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