Dec 9, 2005

ID Controversy - Intelligent Design or Incompetent Design?

Posted in Science at 5:52 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

According to Don Wise, emeritus professor of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amhurst, humans are anything but the product of Intelligent Design (ID), instead he suggests we are the product of Incompetent Design (IcD). Wise cites our sloping pelvis, which causes chronic back pain for millions, our mouths overstocked with teeth, the appendix and tonsils, our upward draining sinuses, and even the benign enlargement of the prostate leading to a staccato peeing style for older men, as being evidence of IcD.

Intelligent designers and creationists stretching right back to Darwin say the wonderful design of the eye is the ultimate evidence for ID. Wise, however, asks what is so “intelligent” in putting all the receptors behind a membrane layer rather than in front for maximum sensitivity? It has to be IcD. Surely?

Wise was interviewed by Maggie Witlin in Seed Magazine.

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