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Skriven 2005-12-09 07:12:02 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
Ärende: Not so intelligent design
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From DailyKOS:

Don Wise, professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, is the nation's foremost proponent of ID. No, Wise
isn't getting ready to testify on behalf of the school board in Dover, PA.
Rather, he advocates for a different version of the acronym: "incompetent
design."

Wise cites serious flaws in the systems of the human body as evidence that
design in the universe exhibits not an obvious source of, but a sore lack
of, intelligence [...]

The thing that perhaps is closest to all of us is our own skeleton, and
there are certainly all kinds of stupidity in our design. No
self-respecting engineering student would make the kinds of dumb mistakes
that are built into us.

All of our pelvises slope forward for convenient knuckle-dragging, like all
the other great apes. And the only reason you stand erect is because of
this incredible sharp bend at the base of your spine, which is either
evolution's way of modifying something or else it's just a design that
would flunk a first-year engineering student.

Look at the teeth in your mouth. Basically, most of us have too many teeth for
the size of our mouth. Well, is this evolution flattening a mammalian muzzle
and jamming it into a face or is it a design that couldn't count accurately
above 20?

Look at the bones in your face. They're the same as the other mammals' but
they're just squashed and contorted by jamming the jaw into a face with your
brain expanding over it, so the potential drainage system in there is so
convoluted that no plumber would admit to having done it!
So is this evolution or is this plain stupid design?

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