Negative Imagery

Intelligent Design.  The idea almost sounds plausible--that God used the process of evolution to “design” nature.  That is, if you set aside that it is a negative theory, it almost makes sense.  The problem with it is that ID does not seek to ascertain the how regarding, for example, evolutionary divergences (e.g. how lizards became birds); ID simply seeks to fill the holes between each presently inexplicable transition with God.  God becomes the glue in the places where science has not yet ascertained an answer.  It’s sort of like describing how the Taj Mahal was built by describing what didn’t happen: “Ha, the evolutionists were wrong about this theory, so ---GOD!”  “Piltdown Man, so ---GOD!”  “Missing ‘missing links,’ so ---GOD!”.

Mankind was created in God’s image supposedly, but if so, why is this body riddled with so many flaws?  Christians like to say that it’s because of the sin introduced to the world by Adam eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (setting aside that it’s pretty cruel for a supposedly loving God to tempt his creation in such a fashion; “Hey, you can play in the garage, just don’t touch the jigsaw that I am going to leave running;” what “loving” parent does that?).  So, did Adam immediately sprout an appendix and tailbone (A perplexed Adam: “Damn, where’d this almost tail come from?  Shit!  I shouldn’t have eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; of course, I didn’t know that doing so was ‘evil’ until after I ate it.  Who, by the way, is Joseph Heller?”)?  Additionally, if you’re going to create a being, why not create that being to the utmost?  Humans have good eyesight, but a falcon’s is about 10x more acute (actually eyesight itself is curious, since the messages are actually delivered upside-down, then rearranged within the brain to match reality).  Our hearing is a fraction as sensitive as that of a cat or deer.  How hard would it be for our “designer” to give us the hearing of a cat, on top of the vision of a hawk?  Why can’t we fly?  He’s God, after all, he’s all-powerful.  So we got the best brains the designer had to offer; why not go all out?  Why shortchange us?  Why not give everyone brains capable of comprehending the space-time continuum?  If I am God, and the universe I have created inevitably leads back to me, then why would I prevent my creation from discovering this fact?  No, instead I only bestow my most beloved creation with a mid-grade intellect, only capable of digesting the most rudimentary truths (a few lucky ones bestowed with better minds get to peel the onion back a little further).  

Then again, maybe God didn’t want us to think too highly of ourselves and try to become like God, because he made that mistake once before (Oh, wait, God doesn’t make mistakes).