[sepositus]

> Why not make them right from the beginning?

I don't intend to come off as obtuse here, but this was my original point. Our current understanding suggests this is a design flaw and is "wrong." However, there are plenty of cases where new discoveries have changed our understanding of a system.

So, I'm simply putting forward the question: At what point can we confidently say something is poorly designed? I'm not disagreeing that, based on our current understanding, some systems in the human body seem suboptimal.

[BrandoElFollito]

Now, we can say it now. You have GP examples and someone more skilled wrote have avoided so many other issues.

The counter argument to that is that we do not understand why this is so (together with suffering etc.) which is the end of any discussion.

[loloquwowndueo]

Ah, the unbeatable “the lord acts in mysterious ways, not meant for mere mortals to understand” argument.

[sepositus]

I came to this realization long before I embraced religion. It seems pretty fundamental to the way we do science.