The argument for intelligent design is simply the god of the gaps argument which refers to a perception of the universe in which anything that currently can be explained by our knowledge of natural phenomena is considered outside the realm of divine interaction, and thus the concept of “God” is invoked to explain what science is, as yet, incapable of explaining. In other words, only the “gaps” in scientific knowledge are explained by the work of God, hence the name “God of the gaps.” So, I’d like to do a fast tirade on stupid design.
So, lets first look at all the things that want to and can kill us.
Firstly let’s have a general look at the universe. Most planets in the universe are unstable with star formations also being completely unstable due to Accretion (the coming together and cohesion of matter under the influence of gravitation to form larger bodies). Most places in the universe will kill life instantly through heat, radiation or freezing. This is what I love about people who say that the forces of nature in the universe are just right for us to live and for life in general. Just think about the volume of the universe in which you can’t live and in which you will die instantly. That’s not what I call the garden of Eden. Galaxies that we orbit once every couple of hundred million years lead us dangerously close to supernovas that will potentially wipe out our ozone layer and kill everybody on the surface. This is just the universe.
Now Earth. Earthquakes and volcanoes regularly level cities and villages whilst Tsunamis have claimed the lives of 150,000 people. We can’t actually live on 2/3 of our earth and 99% of all life that has ever lived on earth is now extinct. The inner solar system is now a shooting gallery, with earth as a target, for comets and asteroids.
Then, in human beings, arguably the most tragic of the triad, I’m not going to even include the expression of free will in which people want to kill each other. I’m talking about nature killing us without the help of human beings. So we go from aggressive Child Leukaemia, Haemophilia, Sickle Cell Anaemia, Parkinson’s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis to Epilepsy and so on. There is also a lot of praise about the human eye but anyone who has seen the full breath of the electromagnetic spectrum will recognise how blind we really are. Part of that blindness means that we can’t detect magnetic fields, ionising radiation or radon which means that we are sitting ducks for ionising radiation.
We also have to eat constantly because we are warm blooded. A crocodile can eat one chicken a month, it’s fine. Also, CO (carbon monoxide), CH4 (methane) and CO2 (Carbon dioxide). We can’t see these gases or smell them and yet if we breathe them, we’re dead.
However my real favourites are these. We breathe, eat and drink through the same hole in our body, guaranteeing that some percent of us will choke to death every year. Wouldn’t it be really cool to have separate holes for eating, breathing and talking? You would never choke, unless you get imaginative with foreign objects.
It’s not a hard request, after all dolphins eat and breathe through different holes in their body (and dolphins are also mammals).
Finally, c’mon, what is going on between our legs? There’s an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. No engineer would design that at all. Ever. It’s like the wrong juxtaposition of elements.
This is all simply stupid design. Yes you can find can find things that are really beautiful and clever (like the ball socket in the shoulder) but then you stop looking at the things that confound this revelation. So, if I came across a frozen waterfall, and it struck for all of its beauty, I would turn over a rock and try to find a millipede or a deadly Newt and put it in context and realise, of course, the universe is not here for us.
Context:
beyond the Edge of reason 