Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Incompetent Design
Don Wise, professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has come up with a new meaning for the acronym ID. He points out all the flaws in the design of humans and thinks "Incompetent Design" is a better description. E.g., our pelvis points forward (like other apes) and the only reason we stand erect is because of a sharp bend in our spines; there are too many teeth to fit in our mouth; the drainage system in our face is crazy; we have an appendix that does nothing, etc. His point being, no engineering student would intentionally design us as we are Here's an interview with him.
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