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[–] 40 points 11 months ago

Funny enough in Giraffes the same nerve goes all the way down their long neck and comes back up. So intelligent.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/GiraffaRecurrEn.svg

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Hey! Noone said it wasn't designed by the intern ROFL

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure that EVERY proponent of the intelligent design nonsense claim that it was designed by the infallible head honcho, actually 😄

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure it's just a way for Theists to pretend like their faith doesn't conflict with pretty basic observations.

    I could be wrong, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Newsflash: YHWH is an incompetent designer, kicked out from engineering school, always drunk, while his fans write all of it off as he's working in mysterious ways.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    My favorite example of "intelligent design" is the whale hip bone:
    an illustration of whale that displays its skeleton including its hipbone which isn't attached to rest of skeleton, and just kind of floating around the whale's groin area

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Seriously though, why hasn't nearsightedness been fixed by evolution yet. It seems like a simple thing to fix (just make the eyeball a bit shorter) and a huge evolutionary disadvantage if you can't distinguish a gnu running away from a sabretooth running towards you.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 11 months ago

    why hasn't nearsightedness been fixed by evolution yet.

    Because nearsighted people fuck.

    Evolution doesn't optimize us for maximum efficiency. It just weeds out the genes that aren't passed on.

    In fact, since gneese and teeth sabre stopped being a major concern and staring at things close to us has become essential to survival, progressively MORE of us have become nearsighted both literally and figuratively.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like the eye was fine until humans stopped getting as much light in their day as they used to. Myopia is on the rise, and studies indicate that the eye tends to elongate when eyes don't get as much light as we evolved getting.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    Was designed to nerf us so we could not kill god.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    thought this was an alignment chart

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