It is interesting that Dr. Humphreys used the term "design" in describing our feet.  It implies a "designer," an intelligence behind the design.  Theologian, William Paley, in 1802 used the analogy of a man who went for a walk and found a pocket watch lying along the trail.  Even if the man had never seen a watch before he could easily assume, by simple investigation, that someone had made the watch for some purpose and had lost the watch.  He would be considered a fool to assume that the watch had simply grown there along the trail.  We can look at our feet and see that they are very well suited to the walking; the purpose to which they were designed.  That our feet are feet and are hands are hands is determined by the code written in our DNA.  The best words we have to describe this process of growth; design, code, written; all imply a designer, code programmer, and writer.  What evidence do we have that there isn't one?

Naturalist science, that denies the possibility of a deity or intelligence behind our existence, proposes the theory of evolution to explain the diversity and development of all Earth's species.  The theory states that simpler, microscopic creatures appeared when the proper chemicals assembled and that these simpler creatures over long periods of time adapted and changed into more complex creatures.  Humans are grouped with primates and placed at the peak of that chain's development.  Our next living links below us in the chain are apes and chimps.  Consider their feet.

Their feet are more like hands.  Hands are marvels of engineering all by themselves.  We get much more use out of our hands then our feet.  For a paw, which is basically a foot, to evolve into a hand and then back into a foot seems a waste.  And why did it end up the way it did?  As was pointed out, horses have only one digit and they are considered at the top of their chain.  Why do we have five toes?  Why not one like horses?  Where are the mammals with more than five digits?  (True, there are rare cases of people and animals with more than five fingers and toes per limb, but these are anomalous and the trait is not usually past on to future offspring.)  The evolutionist is left to answer, "It just happened that way," and fundamentally, that is no better an explanation than to say, "God made it that way."

Consider your feet.  Design or accident?

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