Design flaws
The New York Times has an article today on how some conservatives are big fans of the film March of the Penguins -- not due to the great story, excellent cinematography or the adorable birds...but rather they somehow see it as supporting the notion of "intelligent design."
It seems to me that the very difficult trek these birds have to undertake in order to reproduce is actually evidence against intelligent design. What kind of crazed designer would construct such a difficult and Rube Goldbergesque system for the penguins to mate and reproduce?
If an Intelligent Designer really did create life, he or she should be brought up on charges before some cosmic engineering review board. It's not just penguin reproduction which is poorly designed. How about your average human being? It's ridiculously inefficient (and sometimes dangerous) to use the same passageway for both eating and breathing. And why use the same organs for both waste elimination and reproduction? And why do some essential organs (kidneys) exist in pairs (good design, featuring a backup), but other essential ones, such as the heart, don't have a backup system. When an engineer designs a critical system (say, the flight surface controls of a jet), he or she will provide two or three backup systems, at least. But there's only one heart and liver. And given that Earth is 2/3 water, why can't humans breath underwater, at least enough to survive for a while. A good designer would have included gills as a backup system.
Not to mention better color choices and maybe a USB port too, but I suppose those features were dropped to meet the ship date (the 6th day?)
The New York Times has an article today on how some conservatives are big fans of the film March of the Penguins -- not due to the great story, excellent cinematography or the adorable birds...but rather they somehow see it as supporting the notion of "intelligent design."
It seems to me that the very difficult trek these birds have to undertake in order to reproduce is actually evidence against intelligent design. What kind of crazed designer would construct such a difficult and Rube Goldbergesque system for the penguins to mate and reproduce?
If an Intelligent Designer really did create life, he or she should be brought up on charges before some cosmic engineering review board. It's not just penguin reproduction which is poorly designed. How about your average human being? It's ridiculously inefficient (and sometimes dangerous) to use the same passageway for both eating and breathing. And why use the same organs for both waste elimination and reproduction? And why do some essential organs (kidneys) exist in pairs (good design, featuring a backup), but other essential ones, such as the heart, don't have a backup system. When an engineer designs a critical system (say, the flight surface controls of a jet), he or she will provide two or three backup systems, at least. But there's only one heart and liver. And given that Earth is 2/3 water, why can't humans breath underwater, at least enough to survive for a while. A good designer would have included gills as a backup system.
Not to mention better color choices and maybe a USB port too, but I suppose those features were dropped to meet the ship date (the 6th day?)
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