The last thing I’d call a knee is “intelligently designed”.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I used to work in an orthopaedic hospital. No fucken way knees and backs have an intelligent design.
Let’s not forget how intelligently designed our eyes are, only about 50% of people need corrective lenses to see clearly 👍
It does actually do something. It’s like the USB backup for your gut biome software. So when your gut bacteria have an apocalypse from antibiotics, it uses the backup to restore the biome.
And if we didn’t live in a civilized society I’d have died of starvation or predators at 22 when I tripped and had a back spasm that put me in the hospital for a week
Back, knees, teeth, gall bladder, might I go on…
Creationist arguments are always like “look how well this thing works! It must have been created!”
No intelligence whatsoever.
joints which slowly rub into eachother until you wear them down to the point that living past 50 means joint pain unless you buy replacement joints? that intelligent design? I mean, what are we even talking about here? the human body is a mess of antiquated evolution, we have organs like the apendix, literally named for being extra material, it hangs off the side of our intestines and does basically nothing but if it bursts we die, or are in excruciating pain until a doctor can remove the appendix safely and save us from the bomb we evolved to have.
We eat through the same hole we use to breathe… That’s sort of like a car having a single hole for both gas, oil and washer fluid, and if you forget to adjust the valve determining where things go the car wont start.
Isn’t life ironically the best evidence *against* a designer? Organisms are literally cobbled together scraps from the cutting room floor of things that worked.
“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.” – Terry Pratchett
“that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow.”
Ugh I grew up hearing the words “intelligent design” so much. Their whole thing is, “if it’s too complicated for me to understand, then it _must_ prove god designed it.”
Two ill informed people.
The appendix does have a function, it’s part of the digestive system.
If God doesn’t make mistakes, why do I have to wear contacts to correct astigmatism?
If there’s an intelligent designer, I want to kick their teeth in, cause they are fucking incompetent
Knees fuckin suck. – a master plumber.
“The human spine was designed to be a clothes line. But humans use it as a flag pole”
Some guy. Idk. I couldn’t find the source
The human body is a fucking disaster. We evolved from quadubes and became bipedal. Feet have too many bones and joints and nerves. The our spine isn’t meant to be vertical. We eat and breathe through the same hole. We can’t survive without shelter for more than a few hours.
Probably the best thing we have is more sweat glands than any other animal on Earth. Meaning we have more endurance than any other animal on Earth. We can out perform horses and cheetas.
Evolution doesn’t get things right, it gets things good enough.
The post right below this one is the knee surgery meme
You see a working knee and you’re like “cool”. But what you don’t see is the 30 bajillion other knees that got us killed because they didn’t work right.
I just had knee surgery a couple weeks ago. Intelligent design my ass
It has three ligaments to hold itself together then coats over the joint with a bone, knees could have been better if they had been designed
I don’t think she understands how evolution works. First of all, knees get all sorts of problems. Second of all, the reason we evolved anything that works is because those of us who didn’t have things that worked effectively trended to not have descendants. Our ancestors with working knees lived longer than those without. QED.
“0% chance evolution did this.”
“How did you come to this conclusion?”
“Look at it, dude. It’s all bendy and I want my world view to be right so badly I shut my brain off to critical thought when it’s inconvenient for me.”
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then i took an arrow in the knee…
The “intelligent designer”: Well, I need to connect the brain to the larynx. Couple of nerves aught to do the trick. Let’s see, I’ll make one go directly there…*and the other go all the way down and wrap around the aorta! Brilliant!*
Intelligent design makes perfect sense if you ignore or explain away all the things that don’t really work that well
Like there is a nerve that goes from you head to your throat, via the heart, I believe a left over from when we were fish, not so bad in humans as its only a small detour.
but in a giraffe, its like an extra 2-3 meters of nerve because it goes from the head all the way down the neck around the heart and back up most of the way to the head again.
real intelligent
“Humans, the world, the universe are too complicated to just exist. So something must have created it”
“Well wouldn’t something that can create all those complicated things be more complicated – thus also needing to be created”
“No, god has just always existed”
Deep Doctrine Mormon Edit: “no, the god before god created him.”