Irreducible Complexity.

[lukec]

CoxRox, I can't help but feel that your quote is taken from somewhere which takes Humans as the pinnacle species- who is trying to come up with a better design for "Human" and failing. It is written as though the only possible configuration is a nose and a mouth- and if you want to "speak" you had better have some lips for it. Now why should this be the case? The piece ridicules the idea of a large nose, for example, as ugly. Now, this is very clearly not open-minded thinking. Would you mate with an elephant seal? No, because you are not an elephant seal. But one assumes that elephant seals find each other quite attractive, and perhaps their large, "ugly" (in human terms) nose is just a beautiful organ.

The article also talks about problems with large openings in the nose- but why would this pe a problem? It's as though there is no way to protect the lungs, for example (hair, cilia, etc), and also for some reason assumes that the only place to put the hole is in the nose. Why not coming on in the neck? Or anything really there's many possiblities.

As for speech, perhaps this Human2 wouldn't be able to create the same words as we do, but this does not mean they could not communicate. It is thinking that only a human that looks like us would do that leads to this kind of thinking, but it doesn't really make any sense.