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[camwyn]

Dear God:

I love you dearly and you've done a fantastic job with the world in general- no, seriously, it's really cool and I like it overall. I just have one tiny tiny question.

WTF WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU DESIGNED THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OF BIPEDS???

Seriously- do you hate us or something? The dolphins didn't get this deal...

Just wondering, that's all. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. Oh, and you did some truly amazing work when you put together trees. Those are really neat.

Love,

Me.

(Translation: I got sick about two weeks ago and though I feel well overall I am currently stuck with a persistent post-nasal drip that gives me massive coughing fits every so often. HATE HATE HATE.)

Comments

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

God's got a mean streak a mile wide. How else do you explain the rotaviruses?

[camwyn]

I swear, somebody else can use their One Question Ever To The Big Guy for the philosophical stuff. I have dibs on the respiratory question. If I get two, I'm also asking about the female reproductive cycle, since I don't think too many other primates menstruate.

[innerbrat]

We weren't meant to be bipeds, that's the problem. Birds have it sorted, with their superduper unidirectional flow milarky. The god of primates (and the biosphere was obviously a tema effort) got bored after all those monkeys and just cobbled together the humans at the end. Couldn't even give us a decent spinal column.

Second question:
Hidden ovulation makes the rhythm method unreliable. Just goes to show that natural selection has been battling the childfree movement for millions of years.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Excellent questions.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

And, while you're at it, whose bright idea was it to cross the respiratory and alimentary tracts? Yeah, it lets the fancy musculature of the oropharynx do double duty, for eating and for speech, but how many people have to CHOKE TO DEATH to make *that* trade-off worth it?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Oh, so it's _your_ fault. I thought I caught it from someone around _here_.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Know anyone that can get you an intranasal steriod? I'd send you samples from my office if the heat in the mail trucks wouldn't likely break it down.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

You need to read this entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/552984.html) if you haven't yet. But don't be drinkin' anything while doing so. :->

[blumindy.livejournal.com]

All these conditions exist because they don't impede passage of the genes. Conditions that kill bearers of the gene before they reproduce and pass along the gene are eliminated. Those that don't kill early get passed along. Now that we have medical intervention, things that did kill (like what passes for my eyesight!) get passed on.

All this shows that there is NO intelligence in our design.

Burning Bush......heh.