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God Made an Engineering Nightmare
The human body presents one of the greatest challenges, rather than supports, to the theory of intelligent design.
Let’s face it. The design of the human body is an utter disaster in terms of functionality. Its skin tears and burns easily, its eyes cannot see well in less-than-ideal conditions, and its skeleton is so fragile that it is easily destroyed by the forces that one exerts upon it. Humans also have long and difficult gestation periods, digestive tracts that are ill-equipped to handle what they eat, temperature regulation systems that are easily overwhelmed, and, to top it all of, they will abandon their self-preservation instincts to curry notoriety among other humans.
Aesthetically, humans don’t have very much going for them either. They mostly come in shades of brown with the occasional set of blue or green eyes or blonde or red hair. In this regard, humans easily pale in comparison to the profusions of color and variations in size, shape, and composition seen in other organisms. With regard to physical beauty, humans are relatively boring and easy to pass over in favor of literally any other life form, provided that it can be readily observed.
For anyone who has been exposed to the concept of intelligent design, this begs the question: Why would…
