Intelligent Design

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Yeah, I think it's still a good argument as it shows the hypocrisy of certain approaches.

"Humans are so amazing and brilliant and wonderful, they must have been designed!"

"But they are shit. [Insert facts about human biology]"

"Yes! That's because of [insert scapegoat]."

"So if they're shit, they're not wonderful, so you defeated your own argument."

"Free will."

"What?"

"Look over there!" *runs off*

Rob, LMAO!!!  Yeah, that sums it up.  "Believe what I believe, just don't think very hard about, okay?!"

It isn't a screwed up design. There are hundreds of thousands of examples of what could be interpreted as a miracle of evolution or a brilliant design. The photolyase enzyme, repressor proteins, the cyclin dependent kinase/cyclin complex, the p53 protein and its ability to halt the cell cycle in the presence of DNA damage, structure of neurons with their ion gates that allow electrical impulses to be transferred incredible rapidly, the promoter regions before protein coding regions in DNA that allow for variation, the telomeres and their ability to be silenced in body cells while being expressed in germ line cells. The olfactory bulb where a chemical stimuli is transformed into an electrical impulse. The ability of the cell to organize its chromosomes in the nucleus. The ability of the cell's machinery to attach to the centromere of each chromosome and separate it during anaphase. The mechanisms to minimize wasted resources.

Those are just a few of the many examples of excellent design. You can go on and complain about the structure of your knee or the spinal nerves or whatever you think is poorly designed, but the fact is that sometimes structures can only be improved to a certain point before they begin to impede the function of other structures. It is optimally designed, despite some degradation of our genome over the course of time that we have been here. If you use the poorly designed argument, then you have to ignore almost everything about biology and cling to a few controversial examples.