"Di Vinci studied in anatomy in secrecy. The church was in charge of it in his day, so he would sneak corpses into his quarters and disect them at night. When he completed his research, he determined that God did not exist in the human body as the church claimed He did. In fact, after seeing what all he did, Leonardo found disbelief in God. However, from seeing how delicate the heart is, but also how precise, and the fact that it works on its own, I don't see how someone couldn't see God in that"
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seeing how delicate the heart is, but also how precise, and the fact that it works on its own
However, from seeing how delicate the heart is, but also how precise, and the fact that it works on its own, I don't see how someone couldn't see God in that
Well, of course he didn't find God in the human body; he never expected to. You know very little about Da Vinci. (Hell, you don't even know how to spell "Da Vinci.") Da Vinci was fascinated by the human body and performed his (illegal according to the Church) dissections because he wanted to know how it worked. He was unwilling to simply accept the "magic engine" point of view.
Yeah, the heart isn't the best thing in the world. Heart tissue is so specialized that it can't reproduce itself - once it dies, that's it. No more. Then again, the same thing goes for the brain... so explain to me why, if God is so brilliant, did he put muscle cells and neurons into permanent gap arrest? (This isn't even mentioning heart murmurs, clogged arteries, etc.)
While we're on the subject, how the hell is it intelligent design to have redundant kidneys and lungs, but no redundant heart?
If I recall my biology courses correctly, when the nerve(s?) that connects the brain to the heart is/are severed, the hearth keeps on beating at its natural rate (wich is higher than normal). Wouldn't that mean that even without a brain, your heart would keep beating.
I don't think she's saying that the heart functions independantly of the brain (or various other organs for that matter). I think what Daughter is trying to convey is that the way our bodies function with such intricacies and delicacy is beautiful, which who could deny? So many other processes in the natural world are like this, delicate, precise, yet stable and balanced. Daughter is not denying science here, it is within science that she sees God.
@"David Attenborough"
My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy.
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