Sunday, July 26, 2009
Intelligent Design and health care
When asking whether an organic form like an eye was formed by gradual random stages or designed by an intelligence, the crucial question is this: Could the stages that led up to this structure during the random process have survived selection? Can you reconstruct a sequence of "partial eyes" that would give the animal more benefit than cost, or would those "partial eyes" be useless appendages that use up nutrition and energy without helping the animal survive better? If nothing short of the final product would help, then the final product couldn't have been formed by random selection. It must have been designed in its final form. Or more precisely, the genes that determine its growth must have been designed as a complete system.
Obama's health care reform is a good example of an intermediate appendage with more cost than benefit. Truly intelligent designs for health care do exist, but they are complete systems that take care of all medical needs under the same umbrella. That's the only way to get a final product that gives the country more benefit than cost.
This isn't surprising, since Obama's plan is meant to get through Congress, which is the perfect opposite of intelligence. The only way we'll get a truly beneficial "organ" is by an executive order, the metaphorical equivalent of divine intervention. ¶ 8:10 AM
Obama's health care reform is a good example of an intermediate appendage with more cost than benefit. Truly intelligent designs for health care do exist, but they are complete systems that take care of all medical needs under the same umbrella. That's the only way to get a final product that gives the country more benefit than cost.
This isn't surprising, since Obama's plan is meant to get through Congress, which is the perfect opposite of intelligence. The only way we'll get a truly beneficial "organ" is by an executive order, the metaphorical equivalent of divine intervention. ¶ 8:10 AM
