| Ok, so there's a "designer" out there engineering rapists, murderers, limbless people, mentally handicapped people? Why the hell did the designer create maggots that feed on people's nose tissues[1]? More to the point: what's the design goal? To quote EY [2]: > But when you look at all the apparent purposefulness in Nature, rather than picking and choosing your examples, you start to notice things that don't fit the Judeo-Christian concept of one benevolent God. Foxes seem well-designed to catch rabbits. Rabbits seem well-designed to evade foxes. Was the Creator having trouble making up Its mind? >
When I design a toaster oven, I don't design one part that tries to get electricity to the coils and a second part that tries to prevent electricity from getting to the coils. It would be a waste of effort. Who designed the ecosystem, with its predators and prey, viruses and bacteria? Even the cactus plant, which you might think well-designed to provide water fruit to desert animals, is covered with inconvenient spines. I don't deny that if there is a "designer", then he gets a lot of points for creativity. I mean, it takes a lot of "creativity" to design an 8 limbed baby [3], twins sharing the same body [4] or a child with a skull that won't stop growing [5]. Sure, it's very "creative" and even personal I guess (I mean, when you get ostracized for having an "elephant face" it sure appears to be very meant and taken very personally). So I guess you're right in at least one metaphorical sense. [1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c8_1249503802 [2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM82Hs0LEpc [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57IcN9DWXo [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2SWfoPD5c |