Is intelligent design basically admitting that God isn't all that bright?

Question

If the human body was intelligently designed, it wasn't well-designed. The fovea, wisdom teeth, the respiratory-digestive crossover in the throat, the reproductive-excretory combination in the urethra (running through the prostate to boot!) - couldn't God have been a little more, um, intelligent in his design?

Are intelligent design advocates inadvertently painting their God as a doofus? Does intelligent design fail more as religion or as science?

Ace of Spades: Perhaps not, but at least I know the difference between a possesive pronoun and a contraction.

Answer 1

I have a friend who frequently complains that God put Waste Management in the same area as Recreation! (Which you state much more eloquently). He's always saying that any good engineer could have done a much better job, and would certainly know better.
I don't think ID advocates are painting God as a doofus, they just can't imagine a better way. It's comforting in a way to believe that you were intentionally created by some all-powerful Father who loves you. It's not about logic and reason, but emotion and faith.
ID, in my opinion, fails more as a science. It doesn't fail at all when you include the aspect of "faith", as you do with religion. If you have faith that it is, then it IS in your reality. Just like you can't argue the existence of God with someone who truly believes, you really can't argue that he is responsible for our design - it's part of the faith. Science can show the various ways other things have been created, and have evolved, so ID doesn't look like the answer when you use science.

Answer 2

To start with, 'God', to me, is not some omnipotent, one-of-a- kind being, but the totality of Existence, manifest and unmanifest.

Cosmic mind we call design and its manifstations nature. The design itself is perfect, for there was never a time when it was not, though its actualization into matter on any particular planet proceeds by trial and error, but utimately succeeds. Beings from more evolved races also sometimes give the natural process of evolution 'a helping hand'.

Answer 3

The same reason humans have a coccyx and an appendix; our evolutionary paths led us away from needing these anymore so they lost their functionality. Flawed design would be more accurate, but design changes are always in the genes....

Answer 4

Perhaps the best example, if we were intelligently designed then why does the human genome have 98+% junk DNA sequences? And why does this junk appear to be deactivated genes of our ancient ancestry (deactivated amphibian genes for instance)?

Answer 5

LOL. "Your not very intelligent are you?" It's so hilarious watching stupid people shoot themselves in the feet. They just can't help it, poor kids.

The standard excuse is that God made everything perfect, and then humans screwed it up. Eve ate the apple, so now we have AIDS. Then you get into the whole thing about how human beings (angels, etc) couldn't possibly have "free will" if God is all-knowing and all-powerful, because part of that knowledge and power would involve knowing how humans would behave, and being able to prevent sin and/or its consequences at any time, without resorting to some sick drama in which He sends His "son" to earth to be sacrificed back up to Him.

Answer 6

Not so. Intelligent design is also the ability to allow room for Mankind's self-development into a new and much better order of being. Allowing room for the devil to mess up this intelligent design implies that there is much more to this intelligence than we can figure out.

Answer 7

So you're saying that if you could create a universe that contained humans, you'd do it differently. But we can't create anything! Can't create elements (nope, can't use what's already there to combine, have to start from nothing), can't create life (nope, can't use human dna, have to start from nothing).

Humans... so limited, yet always trying to explain away God. Let me guess, evolution is the religion you follow? One day nothing, the next day, a molecule that contains all matter. Sounds like faith to me! Unless it was always there, hmmm, sounds like faith to me! At least Christians admit they are relying on faith! \

Answer 8

I think the get-out-clause is that we were 'perfect' until the first two people decided to be disobedient, then our perfect pappy (God) lovingly punished the rest of us foreverandever with degenerative diseases, brain malfunction, viruses, cancer, autism, schizophrenia, psychosis, crappy prostate glands (men), arthritis, skin-eating disease and osteoporosis.

To name a handful.

Collective punishment is a weird concept. I always punished my son by making him answerable to his actions. It never occurred to me to poison the whole town's water supply or introduce a biological agent that would f*** up all of their generational offspring foreverandever amen.

lol@ "your (sic) not very intelligent"

*sigh*

Answer 9

Are you an imbecile? The complexity of the universe and of every living organism, no matter how simple is far beyond the ability of the greatest human minds to fully comprehend, let alone duplicate. Just because you don't consider it "perfect" you think it didn't have a designer. You sound like a little child who throws pebbles at a freight train and thinks he's more powerful than the locomotive.

Answer 10

One star for quickly dispatching the heckler. Otherwise I think you're :) point of view is limited.