I believe in Unintelligent Design theory.

[Jackpine Radical]

The Universe was created by God; unfortunately, She's not very bright.

[evil genius]

1. if this is the best she could do, I'm unimpressed.

war, famine, disease and pestilence, George Bush twice, this is not the type of thing you look for on the resume of the supreme being.

[trof]

13. "war, famine, disease and pestilence" : All part of God's plan

for population control.
The sex thing was a deal breaker. He can't take it back.

[Elidor]

2. Looking at mankind, I'm inclined to agree

[arcane1]

3. I can live with that

[htuttle]

4. You would be speaking of Azathoth

The Blind Idiot God of HP Lovecraft's mythos.

I suppose it's just as plausable as any other religious creation myth.

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Actually, I wouldn't be speaking of Azathoth--

but mostly out of sheer ignorance. I haven't read Lovecraft in 40 years, and even back then only in small doses.

[ashling]

5. You make a good point

example: how intelligent was it to create sinuses that drain directly down the back of the throat. This was most definitely a design flaw.

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Be thankful they do

The alternative is for them to drain out the front

[lapfog_1]

6. Or merely VERY busy... after all there may be

many millions of worlds to begin experiments with... and parallel
universes to create.

The notion that there HAS to be intelligence in the creation is
simply silly. I took a college course on "Theory of Adaptation
in Natural and Artificial Systems"... and it is quite easy to create
an environment (as a simulation) and release a population of
Species into the environment and then simulate genetic mutation
and run thousands and millions of trials with that population.

The results are complex well adapted (and sometimes highly adaptable)
populations totally unlike the population which began the experiment.

[indigobusiness]

7. Cozy ideas of God

are absurd.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. What's your point?

[indigobusiness]

10. The pat notions of all sides of this issue...

are equally ridiculous.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Well, to come clean about it, I understood your point, but

was actually playing around with and satirizing the POV you're trying to lump me with. I generally don't use sarcasm markers because they seem to insult the perspicacity of my audience, but there are apparently times when I misoverestimate people.

[indigobusiness]

15. I knew that you were.

And how you'd misunderstand.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Well, I'm glad we clarified that.

[On the Road]

11. That's a Good Way of Putting It

The universe doesn't look designed. It's an ungodly mess. The fact that it works is a testament to adaptation and natural balances that keep life from completely dying off.

I think that's the perfect comeback to someone who thinks the universe was designed because it just looks that way. Which is basically what Intelligent Design is.

[Cadence]

17. If there were no humans on this planet but everything

else existed and you could see the whole thing. Would you still think the same thing?