Evolution and Human Design
One thing that I discovered during my medical degree was that the idea of the human body being intelligently designed was impossible to defend, as there are significant flaws from the gross anatomical [1-3] down to the genomic which make perfect sense when our evolutionary origins are acknowledged but which are impossible to defend from the point of view of an intelligent designer. The genomic errors are of particular interest to me partly because the genomic era has conclusively declared that human-ape common ancestry [4] and evolution in general are facts beyond dispute, but also because they show how suboptimal design is burned into our very nature at the molecular level, a point evolutionary biologist John Avise made: "Intelligent design (ID)-the latest incarnation of religious creationism-posits that complex biological features did not accrue gradually via natural evolutionary forces but, instead, were crafted ex nihilo by a cognitive agent. Yet, many complex biological trait...
