US Politics

Intelligent design is pretty much debunked by the fact that the eye is actually very badly designed and testicles hanging out on the out side are a bad idea. There's nothing intelligent about it.

Well... Sure, you can point to all kinds of flaws which wouldn't exist if each species was designed from scratch. Hair in your bum crack. But I've always felt a bit suss about the assertion that evolution is merely selection acting on random variation over deep time; despite the ridiculous amounts of time involved it still doesn't seem like enough to explain what we see around us, particularly symbioses and stuff.

And sure enough, in recent years Lamarck's reputation is beginning to recover; the inheritance of acquired characteristics is no longer off the table. But even that may be insufficient to explain the actual miracle of life, and perhaps it'll turn out that the hallucinating hippies are on the money when they say stuff about evolution having intent because the whole universe is intelligent...