NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/talk/origins/14536

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Bloom)
Subject: Re: design in living organisms
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins University
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:47:25 GMT
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[e-mail] (Lionel Tun) writes:

>>....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.
[ ...deleted... ]
>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.

Yes, before Eve ate the apple, a woman came equipped with a zipper on
her abdomen.  When the baby was ready to be born, all she'd have to do
is unzip, and out it would come with no trouble at all.  After the
Fall, God was so mad at Eve that He took away the zipper, and that's
why childbirth became so dangerous and difficult.

Now I have a question.  It's something I've wondered about for a long
time.  Does religious fundamentalism cause brain damage, or is it just
that people who suffer from brain damage are more likely to become
fundamentalists?


Keith