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What would an intelligently designed human look like?

One of the key arguments against intelligent design is that as a species we humans aren't designed well. For example: child birth, due to the narrow birthing canal and huge heads of our offspring, can quite often be fatal. The fact that our esophagus and trachea stem from same opening poses risk of choking hazard. The appendix's only job appears to be getting infected. 

So my question is what would an intelligently designed human look like? Are our organs in their optimal place? Is there any thing we could stand to loose/gain? 

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  • Asked by Jimbo_oc
  • on 2010-12-08 17:04:56
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Categories: Human Body.

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Jon-Richfield says:

On current showing, anything designed by humans would be doing well if it resembled the later works of Boris Artzybasheff. Most of our best suggestions would be pedestrian, such as re-routing our recurrent laryngeal nerve, separating our fluid and gas transmission routes, and similar tinkering.

A serious attempt at redesign would involve a lot of radical changes, including mental, social and reproductive as well as physiological. Too much even for one of my screeds. I have long been disgusted to nausea by the sheer barrenness of imagination and biological insight of the designers of aliens in star wars etc.

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posted on 2010-12-09 20:10:59 | Report abuse


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LokiNight says:

If everyone had the same skin colour (or if everyone was 'blind' to skin colour)

an end to flatulence ?

I would like to be able to see IR & UV

Peace'n'Love

Michael

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posted on 2010-12-13 21:42:41 | Report abuse


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