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added example of poor design having benefits; anyone have anything better?
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The argument from poor design is fallacious for the following reasons:
 
The argument from poor design is fallacious for the following reasons:
 
#It is self-defeating, since under evolutionist theory, any supposed design flaw would have been eliminated by [[natural selection]].
 
#It is self-defeating, since under evolutionist theory, any supposed design flaw would have been eliminated by [[natural selection]].
#It does not take into account the advantages that supposedly poor designs offer.
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#It does not take into account the advantages that supposedly poor designs offer, such as those afflicted with sickle cell anemia having immunity from malaria.
 
#Even if a poor design were shown, it would not counter the other aspects of creation that are unarguably the result of good design; since an absolute rule can be disproved by a single counterexample, a single showing of a biological feature that is unarguably designed and designed well suffices to disprove the argument from poor design.
 
#Even if a poor design were shown, it would not counter the other aspects of creation that are unarguably the result of good design; since an absolute rule can be disproved by a single counterexample, a single showing of a biological feature that is unarguably designed and designed well suffices to disprove the argument from poor design.
 
#What appears to be poor design could actually be a result of the [[Fall of Man]].
 
#What appears to be poor design could actually be a result of the [[Fall of Man]].
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