Reply #80: There's strong evidence for a reasonable belief.

[mcg]

Absolute proof is not required, there is plenty of evidence to
form a solid basis for a rational belief:
. biological structures exhibiting specific complexity
involving parts that function together towards a single
function that don't have another function. It is quite
obvious that evolution could not always happen in a
gradual way, contrary to what Darwin imagined. What good
is half of flight? What good would it do a fly to be able
to fly part of the way to a food source? When it comes down
to it, the central tenant of Darwinism is and has alway been
a stupid idea. Will it fall apart? Hell, it's never come together,
there's nothing to fall apart. Try actually specifying what all
those supposely "unguided gradual" beneficial mutations were and
then we'll see if there's something to fall apart. As of now, it
is, in IT speak, vaporware. How can I refute something that doesn't exist?
. evidence of preadaptions - this goes totally against Darwinism.
. consciousness, there is no reason to claim that consciousness
is material. For one thing, consciousness has a nonlocal character.
. qualia, e.g. the experience of red, which is not the same as
a particle of light of the corresponding wavelength.
. fine-tuning of the physical constants for life.
. and those 'subjective' but very real feelings and experiences
you flippantly dismiss.