No Intellegent Design Here

Ah, Religion!

Gotta love it. And you have to love people who believe in things that they can't explain or understand. You have to love them like you love a small child who makes up a story about a rabbit that knocked over the milk jug to explain why it spilled. You have to love them, but you don't have to put up with them.

I sat in my car this morning, sniffling due to seasonal allergies. I watched the oak pollen blow over the hood of my car like a yellow wave of irritation and I thought about how we are all part of nature and the ecosystem. I thought about how pollen blows around the planet and how pollen is a necessary part of our food chain and how important pollinators like bees are.

Then I thought, "hmm, if god created everything under an intelligent design, why would that design include allergies?" "If a supreme intelligence sat down and planned out this whole fucking mess, why would it include something like allergies when it knows that it's using something like pollen?" "What possible divine purpose could allergies have?"

Then I remembered, I am merely human and cannot understand god's plan.

Umm, does anyone here smell bullshit? I do.

I may not have the omniscience to understand a divinely laid out design for an entire ecosystem, but I do understand common sense and basic design. Basic design theory states that every component of a system must work with every other component in a way that benefits the whole without jeopardizing the component. Simple. So if pollen was a necessary part of gods plan, he forgot this law of design because the pollen fucking irritates me. I am part of the system. Common sense tells us that when you create a system make sure that it works without interfering with other important systems. Again pollen=irritate.

From this 45 second stream of consciousness at a stoplight at Highway 109 and Highway 44, I drew 2 possible explanations; 1) God likes fucking with us or 2)There was No Intelligent Design Here.

With All Due Respect,
The Chief