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The following is my regurgitated response to tkappa’s post: The Dysteleological Argument: Some Things About The Human Body Make No Sense Whatsoever (Part I).

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Λοιπόν [so...]

^{(love this word)}

This post is great. Full of information. And interesting to say the least. But, of course there is always one of those...
_{(*Only one “t” so if you want a pun it’s up to you.)}

the dysteleological but

Depending on one’s beliefs this “argument of dysteleology” might in fact be necessary and useful.

It’s a lovely word, dysteleology. But I needed to look it up to fully grasp what it was created* for:

_{(*Another punny bit of irony here. Creating a word for an argument against: [perfect, end-goal] creation of the human — vs. evolution.)}

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So now we need to look up telos (for all those who don’t have a background in Greek language). According to Wikipedia:

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conclusion on “dysteleology”

We only need this if the reader* doesn’t believe in evolution.

_{*the reader of this: The Dysteleological Argument...}

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“Design flaws”

These items that you [@tkappa] mention “above” (including but not limited to things like: too many bones in the feet, the appendix, the prostate, etc.) are parts of the human anatomy that either seem unnecessary or to have been poorly designed.

evolution

But let’s say for arguments sake, that we are organisms that are inherently experiential learners as opposed to now [and relatively newly] sentient and active learners (learning akin to evolution). The flaws in “design” are due to the rapid change in necessity of functioning, over the course of the learning process (evolution), as you (@tkappa) explained “above”. Quoting an example of this from you:

“This is a consequence of our quick evolutionary leap from quadrupeds to bipeds, resulting in our narrow pelvis.”

And to quickly touch upon the “seemingly useless” parts of human anatomy. How do we know for sure that there is no real use or function being provided by those parts? Science is largely based on proven theory. Proven vs disproven; and, theory being theoretical... which leads us to “falsifiability,” please see below, thanks to wiki.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

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baldness

This here may be a touchy subject. I don’t think it needs to be. Why is baldness bad? It is a[n unwanted yet] relatively common occurrence in human males. So it is a societal stigma. It is more related to vainness - at least in modern human evolution.

In the sense that perhaps when we humans were still trying to find mates mainly by who was the most visually or physically appealing, then baldness could have been an issue. But since it didn’t Darwin itself out of the human genepool, then maybe it shouldn’t be viewed as such a bad thing. (“I’m also speaking from a non-experiential standpoint, being a fairly and generally hairy human.”)

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“A.D.H*.D” (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

What is this actually? I haven’t looked into it enough but I feel like it might fall under the “falsifiable scientific theory” category (see above). If it (ADHD) is in fact a real thing and in response to the following excerpt from your (@tkapp) post:

“The most interesting part is that of all living creatures only humans are capable of developing such a disorder.”

-Have studies / reasearch been performed on all other species to test or “prove” that it doesn't exist?

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final logos

Apologies in advance for the long winded reaction and response. I’m no scientist and didn’t research any of this beyond the 22.613* mins it took me compose this. So this is all essentially my opinion, thoughts and my want for further understanding.

*(Plus the time it took me to make a separate post out of this. Thanks again for accepting my request and in advance for your eagerly anticipated reply.)

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ps. This was a potential series of post-reply inspired posts. Where an in depth comment I’ve left on another STEEMians post becomes a separate post.

Stay tuned and thanks for reading!