Incompetent Design

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http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2005/11/the_other_id.php

Interview with Prof. Don Wise, creator of Incompetent Design theory.

Regarding incompetent design, why is the creator not intelligent?

I didn't say that! We don't get into religion. The last thing we want to do is get into arguments of religion, a creator and so on. We're just: "Is there, or is there not, intelligence in the design?"

So is there intelligence in the design?

Yes! No, no there isn't. The thing that perhaps is closest to all of us is our own skeleton, and there are certainly all kinds of stupidity in our design. No self-respecting engineering student would make the kinds of dumb mistakes that are built into us.
All of our pelvises slope forward for convenient knuckle-dragging, like all the other great apes. And the only reason you stand erect is because of this incredible sharp bend at the base of your spine, which is either evolution's way of modifying something or else it's just a design that would flunk a first-year engineering student.
Look at the teeth in your mouth. Basically, most of us have too many teeth for the size of our mouth. Well, is this evolution flattening a mammalian muzzle and jamming it into a face or is it a design that couldn't count accurately above 20?
Look at the bones in your face. They're the same as the other mammals' but they're just squashed and contorted by jamming the jaw into a face with your brain expanding over it, so the potential drainage system in there is so convoluted that no plumber would admit to having done it! So is this evolution or is this plain stupid design?

[StopTheMorans]

1. if it were intelligent design, over 1/2 of adults wouldn't experience

acute back pain at some point in their lives.

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2. ROFL!

Nominated. Great article.

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3. I Believe! I Believe!

Finally! A theory for the rest of us!

[El Fuego]

4. And what's the deal with wisdom teeth?

We have these extra teeth that serve no purpose other than causing pain and having to come out.

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5. kick

Great stuff for the evening crowd.

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6. Texas scientist pees in Morse Code.

If you were to redesign things, how would you make design intelligent?

Well, for one thing I would put fewer teeth in our mouths. I would put fewer bones in our face, so that it could drain properly. I would straighten up the pelvis so we wouldn't have to have that bend. I would certainly take out the appendix so we don't have that problem and the tonsils, too.

And I did have one other. Some guy from Texas listed a number of things with this and he said, "Actually I would write more, but I have to go pee in Morse code, because some idiot designed my aging prostate."

Intelligent designers and, in fact, everybody from the creationists and so on back to the beginning of the last century used to talk about the wonderful design of the eye—which somehow has all your receptor cells behind a membrane curtain!

I mean, evolutionarily all of these things make sense but in terms of a reasonable, intelligent design? They're idiocy. So, the argument is there is no intelligence there in a lot of these things.

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2005/11/the_other_id.php

I wonder if it was Nobel Physicist Steven Weinberg with the aging prostate.

[catmandu57]

7. I read an article several years ago speculating on creation

one of the theories put forth was that the earth and all of it's inhabitants were a team design project that higher ups had decided against and had pulled the plug on.
It makes sense to me.