Planet Earth-Dangerous Design
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science. Carl Sagan This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. The term suggests that some entity, endowed with a mental capacity far greater than the human mind can muster, created or enabled all the things in the physical world that we cannot explain through scientific methods. An interesting hypothesis. But why confine ourselves to things too wondrous or intricate for us to understand, whose existence and attributes we then credit to a superintelligence? Instead, why not tally all those things whose design is so clunky, goofy, impractical, or unworkable that they reflect the absence of intelligence? And what comedian designer configured the region between our legs-an entertainment complex built around a sewage system? Stupid design could fuel a movement unto itself. It may not be nature’s default, but it’s ubiquitous. Yet people seem to enjoy thinking that our bodies, our minds, and even our universe represent pinnacles of form and reason. Maybe it’s a good antidepressant to think so. But it’s not science-not now, not in the past, not ever. -Neil degrasse Tyson Religious fundamentalists may deny that evolution exists, but in the natural world it is religion that does not exist. -John Maisey of American Museum of Natural History Nature is telling us something and it …
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What possesses people who should know better to design stupid products?What planet/ drugs are these dudes on?
Question by tell’emaboutdahoney: What possesses people who should know better to design stupid products?What planet/ drugs are these dudes on?
I mean-Toothpaste with a red stripe-when you rinse out-you think your gums are bleeding!!
Green golf balls-FFS-have you ever tried to find even a white ball in the rough after you’ve hooked or pulled a tee shot?
The list is endless……………………………………………………………………..
Best answer:
Answer by RNW
I’ve heard it said that it’s morally wrong to allow a fool to keep his money. Perhaps the stupid products are just a way to extract money from the fools.
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