Design Flaws?

by Terry Wane Benton

"The design of our shared tubes for eating and breathing causing people to choke to death on their food proves the designer was an utterly incompetent halfwit.......or we evolved" [NF].

I would say to NF that this argument is ridiculous! That is like saying that if pollen can get into the eye despite the eyelids and tear wash system, then it was not designed well. If toes can hit table corners so often and cause excruciating pain, then maybe evolution should have gotten rid of toes by now. Ultimately, we would need to be immortal for it to be a well-designed system. Since we are ultimately headed for immortality, the present system must be very good, yet still subject to death. If it is designed to be subject to corruption and death, then it is not a design flaw if it gets corrupted and dies. It is part of a temporal and corruptible system that is designed to be temporal and corruptible as a testing ground, not our permanent system. If that is the design, and it is, then it seems perfect for such a design.

I am eating an apple right now and breathing, and it does not seem to be a design flaw that I can do both. But get this! If evolution was looking for a workable way to feed us and keep our breathing apparatus open, then do you think the survival of the fittest mechanisms of evolution will correct this terribly flawed system? When will we start seeing the change from this terrible design flaw to the new and improved system that will fix this flaw, which causes so many deaths? Since it has had millions of years to correct this in lower-breathing animals and apes, and now, after a million years of humans using the same system that evolved, why has the survival of the fittest not weeded this flawed system out? Why does it still work well enough to keep it? Could it be that it is working quite well and is not a real design problem? It appears to me to be a very good system designed for testing and corruption in a temporal world where sin and perfect paradise cannot coexist together. Since the program must allow for testing, corruption, and death, and is designed to help us long for a paradise without sin and corruption, a place of total restoration with God, then this testing ground seems perfect for such a design.