Posted by
JDComments on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:29:28 PM
I just have a quick question regarding the infallibility of natural, random selection as the driving force of evolution: the Human brain is usually said to make use of only around 10 to 20% of its capability [anyone who feels this is wrong, please feel free to comment], but if nature only chooses genetic mutations which are useful to the survival of the species, why would an entire organ have been developed which we still do not know how to use? Considering the difficulty which a large head causes for the birthing process [I'll take my wife's word on this], it would seem there is no reason for our brain to be so large, yet it is. Now this is entirely different from a vestigial organ , like the appendix, whose use has become superfluous [other than as a source of income for doctors who remove it] , but which nature has not yet seen fit to weed out of existence. The brain seems to be promising us uses in the future [if we survive that long], but why then has the blind eye of evolution chosen it now? Can this be chocked up to the list of arguments for Intelligent Design?