"Budikka" <budikka1@netscape.net> wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3153475.stm
reveals that "Our ability to smell and taste is regulated by around
1,000 genes, over half of which are totally inactive."

I guess this is another fine example of God's miraculous design. What
was it the creationists were saying about *all* DNA being useful?

We cannot smell as competently as a dog. We cannot see as well as a
bird of prey. We cannot hear as well as a bat or see in the dark as
well as a cat. We cannot run as fast as a gazelle or even climb as
well as a gecko.

We can't fly or even glide. We can't survive underwater despite the
fact that Earth's habitat is some 92% aquatic. We can't detect
infrared that many snakes can. We can't see ultraviolet that many
insects can. We're not as populous as some worms. We're not provided
with the immune system of a shark. We cannot grow new limbs. We
don't even know instinctively when pregnancy is likely and when it's
not, as every other animal seems to.

How can we be even remotely called the pinnacle of creation when in
everything but the size of our ego, we are inferior?

Speak for yourself.

Creationists
think all this is somehow evidence of design. They're wrong. But
what it does prove about creationists is that their one remaining
advantage, the ability to outthink other species, has been surrendered
along with everything else.

Budikka