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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
A more general thing to note is that evolution (mutation plus reproduction plus selection) does not necessarily work toward anything like "perfection." The modern human knee and back, for example, are "poorly made" from the viewpoint of stability, which is why so many problems crop up with them, but they were good enough to "work" (enable the survival of offspring), so they have stuck around to this day. |
this is what strikes me as absolutely hilarious about the "intelligent design" concept... what intelligent designer came up with cancer and toothaches? who "designed" the human jaw that can't house all the teeth that grow in it, or your appendix and tonsils, organs that do nothing but get infected and cause you grief? how intelligent is the famously fragile human spine, or the narrow pelvis that makes childbirth harder for humans than for almost any other species? there are evolutionary explanations for all of these, but i hardly think there was much intelligence in designing halitosis, acne and flatulence.
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