Evolution "fails" AKA "where god seems to have got it wrong"

[Ahriman]

I wouldn't call it "stupid" so much as having an unconventional form of intelligence.

[Anomalocaris]

Yeah, just like zero is a number.

[Ahriman]

Yeah, just like zero is a number.

Not at all the same thing.

[no one]

Me.

I should have never been born.

[Duty]

I'm going to take the above post as a (somewhat, er...poor, IMO) attempt at humour.

The appendix. Ruptures due to a blockage? Death. Usefulness? Zero.

[Nay_Sayer]

'Ahriman'
I wouldn't call it "stupid" so much as having an unconventional form of intelligence.

In the same manner that the Hindenburg had an unconventional landing

[polymath257]

The example of the blood vessels for mammals being on the obstructive side of the cornea (as opposed to say, a squid's eye) is often given, but I was struck with a far more obvious example recently and reckon there must be dozens if not hundreds/thousands of others which highlight the "divine immaculate design" hypothesis fail, therefore thread.

Here's a start then - the combination of the respiration and food/drink ingestion tract. Choking? Death death death death etc...why weren't humans given a blow hole like a whale? Because evolution is blind, of course. 

Any more for any more?

One of the better examples is the recurrent pharyngeal nerve. It is a cranial nerve that innervates the throat and surrounding structures. Starting at the head, it goes down into the chest, around the aorta (for no apparent reason), and then up to the throat when it could simply go directly to the throat.

It is even better in the giraffe: it *still* goes from the head all the way down to the chest, loops around the aorta and then back to the top of the neck to innervate the throat structures.

Any engineer that designed a communication pathway like that should be summarily shot.

[Angrboda]

I wouldn't call it "stupid" so much as having an unconventional form of intelligence.

Yeah, no, you're just stupid.

[zebo-the-fat]

I wouldn't call it "stupid" so much as having an unconventional form of intelligence.

Yeah, no, you're just stupid.

No.. he's working his way up towards stupid, not quite reached it yet though
(may be becouse he chooses to inhabit the wrong type of body)

[Anomalocaris]

The example of the blood vessels for mammals being on the obstructive side of the cornea (as opposed to say, a squid's eye) is often given, but I was struck with a far more obvious example recently and reckon there must be dozens if not hundreds/thousands of others which highlight the "divine immaculate design" hypothesis fail, therefore thread.

Here's a start then - the combination of the respiration and food/drink ingestion tract. Choking? Death death death death etc...why weren't humans given a blow hole like a whale? Because evolution is blind, of course. 

Any more for any more?

One of the better examples is the recurrent pharyngeal nerve. It is a cranial nerve that innervates the throat and surrounding structures. Starting at the head, it goes down into the chest, around the aorta (for no apparent reason), and then up to the throat when it could simply go directly to the throat.

It is even better in the giraffe: it *still* goes from the head all the way down to the chest, loops around the aorta and then back to the top of the neck to innervate the throat structures.

Any engineer that designed a communication pathway like that should be summarily shot.

That’s not so much an example of bad design as a pretty decent original design for something else, namely jawless creature with a notochord and linear repeating patterns of musculature along its length with minimum specialization, adapted time and again with little care and no forethought to suit dramatically different needs and structure.