Some comments on "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes"

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"Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" is a fictional book in Douglas Adams' (PBUH) wonderful polyology, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

It was used as a title for a webpage listing multiple examples of what can only be called "dumb design".

The point is that if an intelligent designer designed all the features of living creatures, and was an all-knowing, wise, beneficent and competent designer, how come he came up with all these goofs?

The two competing hypotheses are,

1) that an intelligent designer designed this stuff because,

or

2) that evolution, the blind watchmaker, just happened to stumble into these ridiculous situations.

Evolution predicts that organisms will often be led up blind alleys, very often to the point of extinction. It has no look-ahead. No teleology. It cannot cross, by the well-known mechanism of the natural selection of heritable variations, large improbable 'distances' in the fitness landscape.

An omniscient intelligent designer could easily overcome the barriers that defeat evolution. Either he doesn't want to, can't, or is non-existent.

"Designers can go back to the drawing-board. Evolution is condemned to modify what is already there". - Richard Dawkins.

See also, Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body and Evolutionary flaws disprove the theory of intelligent design

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design?

And https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0914609107

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And https://nautil.us/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-body-235403/