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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: design in living organisms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195205.18176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Nov15.070436.12674@athena.cs.uga.edu> <102252@bu.edu> <1992Nov18.123429.6757@city.cs>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:52:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.123429.6757@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- >In article <102252@bu.edu> colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby) writes:
- >>
- >>Yep, but be glad you are a male and only have to deal with these
- >>rather paltry problems in the uro-genital system. If you were a
- >>female you'd have to squeeze your offspring through the only
- >>bone surrounded structure anywhere near the uterus. If I had designed
- >>females, I'd have cut them a little slack and not force them to
- >>send kids through (as Robin Williams put it) "the Play-Dough Fun
- >>Factory of Life".
- >
- >This is a sad consequence of mankind's rebellion against God,
- >aka the Fall.
- >Genesis 3:16
- >16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
- > conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
- > desire hall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- >
- >Your description of difficult childbirth is correct, and is just one
- >example of many things in creation which were originally perfectly
- >designed, but have been corrupted because of the Fall.
-
- Ah, doncha just love these lovely little myths about the christian god
- of sadism? Boggles the mind, though--if Eve's birth canal didn't
- originally, pass through her pelvic girdle, where was it located?
- (The left armpit, perhaps?) Were the birth canals of all other mammals
- moved at the same time?
-
- Trygve
-