What Intelligent Design? Three Considerations…
1.) There’s an old joke about a couple of engineers who are speculating about God. They took God for an engineer, but the debate was over what kind of engineer He was. The skeletal system suggested that he might be a mechanical engineer, while the electrical impulse system made a case for His being an electrical engineer. Then, one of the engineers suggested that God must be a civil engineer, because only a civil engineer would run a sewer line through a recreational area.
2.) God must use sub-contractors, because some things are designed quite well, whereas the human body has lots of peculiar design flaws. What respectable engineer would design a body so that the heaviest part – the head – sits on top while providing two legs to stand on, instead of three?
3.) I have always been fond of the theory that man was a first draft, and on the second try (using Adam’s rib), God got it right. Or whoever the subcontractor was.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:49 am
As much as “I enjoy being a girl!” and as beautiful as I find the female form, there are a few definite drawbacks of chickhood.
And, there’s something about a sleeping man (sans snores)I’ve always enjoyed watching.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Good career move, Brother Algernon (if I may so observe).
I gather you prefer us more-or-less silent and even more unconscious than normal for us, Sister Tara.
You must know this one, I seem to invite them.
Two engineers lunch.
“Hey, this hot girl in a tube top and Daisy Dukes rode up to me on her bike while I was jogging. She took off all her clothes and said, ‘You can have anything you see, Baby!’”
“What did you do?”
“Took the bike.”
“Excellent thinking. Her clothes probably wouldn’t have fit.”
“Yeah, and no place to hang my walkie-talkie, tape-measure, calculator, cell-phone, pager, mechanical pencil holster, duct tape dispenser, hammer…”