A random thought.

[dianec42]

If there really is an Intelligent Designer, I'd like to have words with him/her/it about this whole "sinuses" feature.

EDIT: And another thing... on behalf of a friend, I'd also like to complain about the Bleeding Ulcer bug. You've had plenty of time to work the kinks out of this design; couldn't you have added, like, a warning light or something? Sheesh.

EDIT2: Even The Straight Dope can't answer why we have sinuses. "It is part of God's plan. Where else would the baby cold germs live?"

Comments

[anneb.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, if there is, said designer also gave us corticosteroid nasal sprays.

They are my lifeline when it gets bad.

Bummer 'bout the sinii. )-:

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

I agree. Bad design.

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Also, If said designer does exist they can't be intelligent 'cause who runs a sewer line right through the middle of a playground....

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

who runs a sewer line right through the middle of a playground....

Someone who doesn't care about the children! Duh.

(What if there were no rhetorical questions?)

[lensman.livejournal.com]

"Someone who doesn't care about the children! Duh."

But when there are children passing through; It's no longer a playground, It's a departure gate.... (Not that there should be a sewer line there either...) :-)

"(What if there were no rhetorical questions?)"

Then there would be fewer smart assed answers... :-)

[anneb.livejournal.com]

Given what my sinuses do when the barometric pressure changes, it's to allow some give and take when storm fronts come through. Mine can do that quite badly.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

And yet most of the animal kingdom does just fine without. Go fig.

[redknight.livejournal.com]

I fail to see how these flaws discredit the idea of intelligent design. Just because the designer was intelligent doesn't mean they had enough time or budget to do a thorough job.

You've been working in the computer industry for a while now, has management ever forced you to ship a product you knew to be flawed? Would they have gone ahead and shipped it even if you'd quit/threatened to quit?

To paraphrase Murphy's Laws of Combat "Never forget that your body was designed by the lowest bidder."

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[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Ah, so Bill Gates really is God then? :)

Or did God just subcontract to Microsoft? And thinking of God subcontracting, I can thoroughly recommend 'The Creation Memos' as a practical record of the problems encountered when subcontracting on the building of a universe.

[redknight.livejournal.com]

"Randall: We made trees and shrubs. We helped make all this.
Kevin: Whew! That's not bad.
Randall: Yeah. But did we get a thimble full of credit for it? No! All we got was the sack. Just for creating the Pink Bunkadoo.
Kevin: Pink Bunkadoo?
Randall: Yeah. Beautiful trees that was. Og designed it. 600 feet high, bright red, and smelled terrible. "
-- From Time Bandits

You raise an excellent point! Perhaps it's less a matter of intelligent design and more a matter of incompetent assistance? :-)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I thought they were there to warm and moisten the air you breathe before it gets to your lungs.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

The nose already does that. (Go read the Straight Dope article, it's fun!)

[fenicedautun.livejournal.com]

In baby cold germ nurseries? (And no, there are no rhetorical questions, why do you ask?)