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ysabetwordsmith

Poem: "Unintelligent Design"

Feb 06, 2013 20:49

This poem was from the February 5, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It came from prompts by Shirley Barrette and janetmiles. It has been sponsored by janetmiles. You can read more about evolution, intelligent design, and Occam's Razor online.

Unintelligent Design

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Comments 7

fayanora February 7 2013, 05:53:03 UTC

Pastafarians ("believers" in the Flying Spaghetti Monster) claim that the universe was made by unintelligent design, and that lack of pirates causes global warming.

Then the Discordians say that God is a crazy woman named Eris. She and Her sister Aneris made the universe, and Eris put nipples on the male mammals because she thought it was amusing. She also made the platypus.

Well... ysabetwordsmith February 7 2013, 06:06:38 UTC

I note that the Discordian explanation neatly accounts for all the sheer bullshit in the world.

Re: Well... janetmiles February 7 2013, 14:02:04 UTC

And also for much of the pleasing nonsense, it seems to me.

Re: Well... fayanora February 9 2013, 01:05:07 UTC

Yup. As the Principia Discordia says, "Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that's beautiful."

janetmiles February 7 2013, 14:03:46 UTC

Oh, I hadn't thought about cataracts, but yeah, those too.

Heh. Bioengineering, biomechanics, civil engineering ("who else would put a toxic waste pipeline next to a playground?"). . . .

*laugh* ysabetwordsmith February 7 2013, 16:15:52 UTC

Yeah, I remember the civil engineering one from Spider Robinson.

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Also... ysabetwordsmith February 8 2013, 04:37:22 UTC

I didn't want to do eyeballs twice, but if there is a God, he clearly did not read the model kit instructions and plugged them in backwards, creating a blind spot. Some other animals have properly assembled eyeballs without that particular flaw.

So it's not just humans who do things like nailing the back onto the bookcase the wrong way.