Thinking out loud … the alternative is a separate larynx and oesophagus? This would entail respiration only through the nose, which would limit the increase of air intake when needed for vigorous activity. Much larger nostrils would be one solution.
Sure, larger nostrils or something. If it attached the air supply to an orifice that was too small, we’d be complaining “stupid designer.”
Possibly more of an issue, the connection between olfactory sense and eating. Much of what we experience as taste is olfactory, thanks to air that passes through the mouth. I think you’d want to get some air cross wired for that purpose.
Couldn’t track this down easily and not motivated to look further, but the story I heard was that other mammals can for example drink while breathing. We can’t because our air stuff was moved in front, so there’d be room for a big larynx, so we could praise God.
@David B. Appleton: ““Intelligent Design my a**.” would make for a good slogan for a gym.
@Alan Flynn, two mouthes, or a blow hole, or a semi permiable membrane that covers the whole neck shoulders and chest that filters the air without letting dust in, or better yet seperate holes for in-air and out-air so you can breathe constantly. The possibilities are endless if it’s by design. If it’s evolution, well, you need to build on yesterday’s broken model.
Human eyes (and all vertebrate eyes) have a “blind spot” where the optic nerve passes through the retina and services the sensory cells from the front. This is dumbfoundingly unintelligent design! Any argument that for some mysterious reason it has to be done that way is refuted by the octopus eye, which does the sensible thing and connects the optic nerve to the retina from behind.
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Anyone who has spent time in an orthopedic office has to wonder which crappy engineering school the ‘designer’ went to. Good job on the joints.
And why did God put an amusement centre next to a sewage system when creating humans? An oldie but still good fun (and then there’s the eye…)
Every time I start to choke on something I’ve swallowed that goes down the wrong tube, I always say: “Intelligent Design my a**.”
If the knee is designed then the designer is an idiot. And what’s the deal with avocado seeds?
Thinking out loud … the alternative is a separate larynx and oesophagus? This would entail respiration only through the nose, which would limit the increase of air intake when needed for vigorous activity. Much larger nostrils would be one solution.
Sure, larger nostrils or something. If it attached the air supply to an orifice that was too small, we’d be complaining “stupid designer.”
Possibly more of an issue, the connection between olfactory sense and eating. Much of what we experience as taste is olfactory, thanks to air that passes through the mouth. I think you’d want to get some air cross wired for that purpose.
Couldn’t track this down easily and not motivated to look further, but the story I heard was that other mammals can for example drink while breathing. We can’t because our air stuff was moved in front, so there’d be room for a big larynx, so we could praise God.
“Mysterious ways” = “Don’t ask me, I got nothin’.”
Donn Cave, drinking while breathing has always been my thing, but one thing I can’t do is thinking when drinking. I think I’ll have another drink. https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=beer+called+beerbitch&refig=b9d51e376b8943c79299fa36fb28c92c&pc=DCTS&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dbeer%2bcalled%2bbeerbitch%26form%3dANNTH1%26refig%3db9d51e376b8943c79299fa36fb28c92c%26pc%3dDCTS&mmscn=vwrc&mid=7728F42F40A98992B1897728F42F40A98992B189&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=263d4fa857ec11f091b476ab40ba8034
@David B. Appleton: ““Intelligent Design my a**.” would make for a good slogan for a gym.
@Alan Flynn, two mouthes, or a blow hole, or a semi permiable membrane that covers the whole neck shoulders and chest that filters the air without letting dust in, or better yet seperate holes for in-air and out-air so you can breathe constantly. The possibilities are endless if it’s by design. If it’s evolution, well, you need to build on yesterday’s broken model.
Human eyes (and all vertebrate eyes) have a “blind spot” where the optic nerve passes through the retina and services the sensory cells from the front. This is dumbfoundingly unintelligent design! Any argument that for some mysterious reason it has to be done that way is refuted by the octopus eye, which does the sensible thing and connects the optic nerve to the retina from behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
Shinpads.