History Repeats Itself

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The problem with believing God created us as we are is that it's saying God is a terrible designer. We have loads of things that are wired inefficiently presenting unecessary problems, we have an organ that doesn't even do anything anymore and can only cause complications... and what kind of God (outside of Anusius) decides they want their creation to have to poop out big smelly lumps of unused food? (Asking me "how else could God..." is to imply God turned up one day with a bunch of rules already set.) I mean, if I was a god and someone was trying to blame me for humans, I'd be very insulted. Humans are needlessly complex, contrived and vulnerable. If all that is intentional, he's a sick son of a bitch.

And if it's all our fault because of something that happened before we were born, he's even more petty and sadistic.

However, our bodies with all their weirdness, junk DNA, faulty wiring and windows-esque patches are exactly what you'd expect from an unintelligent natural selection process.

Evolution is a difficult subject to fully understand, yes. But science isn't meant to provide one line answers to very difficult problems, it takes hard work and study. Writing it all off as magic instead is not a valid answer.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, The theory of evolution is rock solid and there are no substantiated objections. Please correct me if I'm wrong there. Of course some people, even scientists, will disagree. But if they had valid objections, the theory would have to be rethought. That is how science works. I have a decent layman's understand of evolution, but I'm nowhere near qualified to tell you what is and isn't a substantial objection.

One last thing... evolution versus intelligent design is a false dichotomy. These are not the two only options. And to jump to magic as the next most likely thing is to abandon all rational thought and enquiry. I don't have to know anything about evolution to realise that.