>One common reason for believing in God is how ingeniously designed living things often are. Any decent genetics/medical class will thoroughly disabuse you of

>One common reason for believing in God is how ingeniously designed living things often are. Any decent genetics/medical class will thoroughly disabuse you of this notion. There's a clear lack of any intelligence in our design beyond satisfying evolutionary requirements. Up to 9/10 first time mothers suffer a perineal laceration during childbirth. 65% require stitches. Male/female ducks are in an evolutionary arms race for control of breeding. Males have extremely long corkscrew penises for rape, while the females have vaginas with fake paths designed to resist. Humans have the same conflict, but it plays out socially (e.g. faking signals of high value during courtship) or in war. A number of religious people, both genders, have argued to me that we can't apply human concepts of rape to animals/god. Nuts. Either God is a sick, twisted, sadistic fucker, or life wasn't intelligently designed. Pick one.