Intelligent Design

Creationist claim the human body was intelligently designed by God. And then humans invented shoes, clothing, sunscreen, sunglasses, corrective lenses, hearing aids, braces, dentures, titanium joints, wheelchairs, pacemakers, surgery of vestigiality, vaccines, antibiotics, dialysis, insulin, chemotherapy, and other scientific inventions to fix all the problems of the initial human design. If the human body was supernaturally designed, it wasn’t a very intelligent design when considering that stupid humans have so easily improved on the design. Some religious people may argue that God created these bodily problems as a trial of pain and sorrow that we might learn joy and wisdom, but the same people also claim that we are created in the image of God. So I guess God is also struggling with this faulty design. Let’s consider a few other design problems.

Eating, Drinking, Speaking, and Breathing all uses the same entrance. Choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury death killing thousands every year. Sensitive reproductive organs with open orifices and thin broken skin are located extremely close to the fecal waste exit. This flaw leads to numerous infectious issues. Also the sexually arousing prostate is located in the poop track. The Laryngeal nerve or vocal cord travels from the brain down through chest and back to the throat. This indirect route is even more impractical in mammals with longer necks. For proper health we must spend a third of our lives unconscious. The only part of our body that doesn’t regenerate, our soft brain, is encased in a hard sharp pokey bone.

A supposed male deity must have had issue with women as they are designed with very difficult design flaws. Women begin to menstruate even before they’re sexually active and trying to have a baby. The location of the clitoris makes sexual satisfaction complicated and frustrating. During nine months of pregnancy the baby sits on the internal organs, cuts off blood supply, causes swelling, can cause external tearing and internal rupturing, and the baby doesn't fit out of the pelvis making vaginal birth excruciating and sometimes fatal. Other design flaws include endometriosis, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, gynecologic cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, infertility, and breast cancer. Guys just have sensitive external testicles and non-functioning nipples. Men are also naturally born with a foreskin which is arguably a good design, but God made a mistake and requested an aftermarket recall.

Often the human eye is use as an example of supernatural design because it’s so complex and well functioning. The religious argue it couldn’t have happened by chance or gradual evolution. As one looks beyond just the human eye and studies all biological systems of vision, then a plausible and gradual example of evolution become evident. There are species with better eyes than humans and other species with lesser more simple eyes. There are species with different types of eyes and some with no optical vision sensory functions at all. In our human eyes, the light detecting retina is flipped backwards while squid and octopus have a forward facing retina. The following video explains more about the wonderful and complex eye.

The evidence for intelligent design is based on faith in a prescientific medieval book of fictions and supported by the personal incredulity fallacy. The evidence for human evolution to our current form is based of verifiable empirical evidence and supported by unbiased objective rational logic. Thousands of incredibly intelligent scientists have not been able to falsify Darwinian Evolution. As a normal stupid human with a mechanical engineering degree I can easily imagine a number of human biological designs that I would improve on. But the super intelligent omniscient supernatural deity who supposedly designed us perfectly in his image knows better.