Everybody: Name a way God screwed up his "intelligent design"?

Question

No repeats, there's a lot of stuff God messed up on!!

I'll start it off with a few:
1. We breathe, eat and talk out of the same hole. Choke alert!
2. Most planets are inhabitable!
3. Animals have many genetic disorders. We can get sickle cell amenia and there are many kinds of birth defects!

1) Actually, there are separate holes for eating and breathing. You don't really talk out of a hole....

No really! They separate into two holes later on in body. Otherwise we would be putting food and liquids into our lungs. I mean wow.

2) We can terraform a few of them, and why would we need more then one?

How's that sci-fi book working out for you?

3) Genetic mutation, it is essential for evolution and adaptation.

This contradicts intelligent design which states that there is NO evolution.

I angered the creationists! They have resorted to copy pasting dribble from Kent Hovind's website.

Answer 1

Plumbing the male urethra through a solid organ (the prostate) that expands with age. Making the female urethra so short that bacteria regularly enter the bladder and cause infections.

Putting the birth canal through a ring of bone that in many cases is smaller than the baby's head, causing massive perinatal and maternal mortality in the days before safe obstetrics.

Whether or no the appendix contains lymphoid tissue, it was unintelligent making it a blind tube.

And that's just a few pelvic organs.

Answer 2

Progeria. Look it up.

Essentially it means that a few children will develop a genetic disorder that causes them to have heart disease and strokes by the age of four. But get this, their brain development is normal so they will experience the horrors of progressive decline, and will succumb to aging around the age of 13. The mortality rate is 100%. Perhaps Tim M can explain how a childhood disease is a product of "man's sin."

Humans must learn to help themselves -- there is no god to cure every malady at a whim. Modern medicine must push forward and make up for where nature fails to -- if genetics and the universe are "intelligently designed," then fatal diseases and black holes show that it's a malevolent design, so humans had best be prepared to fend for themselves.

Answer 3

The human body is not really designed for walking upright, but appears to be adapted from earlier designs. The knees and spine in particular appear to be under-designed. If our sin brought about suffering, perhaps the original sin was walking upright!

To revisit sickle-cell, the gene that causes it also imparts resistance to malaria, if you inherit only one copy of it, but causes sickle-cell in those who inherit two. A perfect example of evolutionary roulette, but a not very impressive design for an omnipotent creator.

I'm surprised creationists are still using that canard about the eye. There is a continuum of optical organs from light-sensitive pigments to the eye of the eagle that is actually an excellent example of how evolution builds complexity.

Answer 4

A civil engineer, a chemist, and a mechanical engineer are at a party. Somehow, the topic of religion comes up. "God must be a mechanical engineer," says the ME, "look at the thought and artistry that is a skeletal system. All those moving parts, working togeather in unison... it's a thing of beauty." The chemist replies, "No, no, you have it all wrong. Everything in life can be reduced to chemical reactions. Only a chemist could have created all that there is by using such complex sets of reactions." The civil engineer just laughs and says, "You're both full of it. Of course God is a civil engineer: who else would run a waste disposal system through a recreation area?"

Answer 5

God was perfect in his intelligent design, it was evolution (and the adaptation to this physical world) that screwed everything up. For example, our appendix once served an important function in our body. Now, we've evolved to a point where our appendix is vitually useless. And sorry, whether we sin or not will not affect how we evolve or suffer.

Answer 6

When Darwinist decide to argue theology, as you are, they are admitting that Darwinism is incorrect and that ID is correct. Because they have given up on the scientific arguments.
If ID is correct? Why is the world, the way it is? That is in the realm of theology. Not science! It's like asking, OK then, who is the Designer? What is He like? What does nature tell us about Him?
The theological answer to your questions is. The world was corrupted with evil. After Adam and Eve, ate of the tree of the, "knowledge of good and evil". God cursed the earth with evil; so they could know the difference! That evil is also known as confusion.

Answer 7

People who ask stupid questions that have been asked a million times before on R&S! Hardly seems very intelligent to me. Also, a platypus qualifies, IMO.

Answer 8

He made wasps that lay their eggs in LIVE Caterpillars, who are then eaten from the inside out by the growing larvae until they become mature, kill it, and abandon the body!

Answer 9

The Eye
"No device in a publishing system is capable of reproducing the full range of colors viewable to the human eye. Each device operates within a specific color space, which can produce a certain range, or gamut, of colors." Instructions in Adobe Photoshop relating to colors.
The three dimensional property of our vision is created by the use of two different eyes instead of one. The brain receives two different groups of 6,000,000 constantly changing
codes from each eye - two different pictures of the same object. The brain must then take these signals and synthesize them instantly and create a moving three dimensional picture.
The 6,000,000 nerve endings are divided into three different groups that respond to the three primary colors of light. There are 2,000,000 that respond to red light, 2,000,000 that respond to yellow light and 2,000,000 that respond to blue light.
In order to colorize the moving picture, the brain must translate12,000,000 constantly changing color codes from the three primary colors to create a palate of millions of different colors that precisely reflect the actual color of an external reality to which the eye is not connected. All this is done by means of an electrical code in the space of nanoseconds.

This is so simple surely it evolved. Yeah that's it.

Answer 10

Children as young as 9 (and that's not even the youngest in history) can get pregnant....
sounds more like an animal to me....