• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      11·
      3 days ago

      I’m pretty sure that EVERY proponent of the intelligent design nonsense claim that it was designed by the infallible head honcho, actually 😄

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Pretty sure it’s just a way for Theists to pretend like their faith doesn’t conflict with pretty basic observations.

        I could be wrong, though.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          1·
          3 days ago

          just a way for Theists to pretend like their faith doesn’t conflict with pretty basic observations

          gestures at all theology and apologia So’s this 🤷

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      Newsflash: YHWH is an incompetent designer, kicked out from engineering school, always drunk, while his fans write all of it off as he’s working in mysterious ways.

  • optional@feddit.org
    51·
    3 days ago

    Seriously though, why hasn’t nearsightedness been fixed by evolution yet. It seems like a simple thing to fix (just make the eyeball a bit shorter) and a huge evolutionary disadvantage if you can’t distinguish a gnu running away from a sabretooth running towards you.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      10·
      3 days ago

      why hasn’t nearsightedness been fixed by evolution yet.

      Because nearsighted people fuck.

      Evolution doesn’t optimize us for maximum efficiency. It just weeds out the genes that aren’t passed on.

      In fact, since gneese and teeth sabre stopped being a major concern and staring at things close to us has become essential to survival, progressively MORE of us have become nearsighted both literally and figuratively.

    • toast@retrolemmy.com
      6·
      3 days ago

      Seems like the eye was fine until humans stopped getting as much light in their day as they used to. Myopia is on the rise, and studies indicate that the eye tends to elongate when eyes don’t get as much light as we evolved getting.

        • Strath@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          I had a coworker that paid hundreds in the '90s for a video cassette series that boiled down to exactly that. Spend more time outside and squint until your vision is healed.

      • optional@feddit.org
        1·
        3 days ago

        🤣 But according to that documentary, nearsightedness should die out, because the people that sit in dark rooms and read books all night instead of fucking around don’t procreate. So we might become idiots, but at least idiots without glasses.