Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Intelligent Design

What about Stupid Design?
It is argued, for example, that something as complicated as the vertebrate eye could never have evolved by chance, without a guiding intelligence.
But why design eyes that weaken as we age, that are subject to blindness and disease, and that are limited the way ours are?
For that matter, why would an intelligent designer give us teeth that rot and gums that recede?
There's so much palpably wrong with the little piece of the universe where we live, that one might go so far as positing an absent-minded designer with occasional flashes of intelligence and a nasty tendency to play practical jokes.

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