Caveman tools are said to be "evidence" of intentional order and arrangement, and are displayed in museums.
What evidence does the far superior crafting of human teeth provide? Does this not indicate intentional order and design?
According to Physicist Sir Roger Penrose, the chance of arriving at our finely tuned universe randomly, is no less than one in 10^10^123.
This is a number whose decimal representation has "vastly more zeroes than the number of fundamental particles in the observable universe."
Some people have a superb set of teeth, as for example this young woman in the picture.
But how did the human body come to have this specific arrangement of ivories?
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; or by contrast do you think they were all created spontaneously in a single spurt of 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, tooth-by-tooth, their counterparts in the upper jaw?
A Billion Consecutive Serendipitous Events?
Does that sound like "sheer luck" to you? Or is it more reminiscent of good foresight and coordinated planning?
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:
What do you think?
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