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Urbane Guerrilla · 03-27-2008, 02:07 AM

A "zhopa," then?

It's remarkable just how many biological structures are so very ad-hoc and improvisational. How intelligent is it to put the eye's blood supply on top of the light detector? Or a urethra through the middle of a prostate that tends to enlarge in later life? No, biological design doesn't necessarily impress with its engineering.

That said, it doesn't necessarily stop me from being a believer, primarily because of one single big-M mystery: I don't know why the Big Bang banged. I could say "God did it," and speak no worse nonsense than anyone else talking about the inside of Planck time, that first ten-to-the-minus-forty-third of a second.

03-27-2008, 02:07 AM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	A "zhopa," then? It's remarkable just how many biological structures are so very ad-hoc and improvisational. How intelligent is it to put the eye's blood supply on top of the light detector? Or a urethra through the middle of a prostate that tends to enlarge in later life? No, biological design doesn't necessarily impress with its engineering. That said, it doesn't necessarily stop me from being a believer, primarily because of one single big-M mystery: I don't know why the Big Bang banged. I could say "God did it," and speak no worse nonsense than anyone else talking about the inside of Planck time, that first ten-to-the-minus-forty-third of a second. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 03-27-2008 at 02:14 AM.