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A remarkable but flawed effort by an apprentice
It bemuses and amuses me that some people think of God as an intelligent designer. For there are obvious flaws in hiser creation, especially in us humans. I am not the first person to point that out. So I will mention only a few of the most obvious ones.
If more of us had six fingers on each hand, rather than only five, we would have developed a much more useful base-12 number system, with a base divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, rather than our inferior base-10 number system, with its base divisible by only 2 and 5.
Our breathing passage from nose and mouth to lungs crosses our food and water intake passage from mouth to stomach, causing people to choke fairly often, sometimes fatally. That’s a fairly serious flaw in our design.
And God made us different enough in appearance for each other to notice, and unintelligent enough to quarrel over those differences, often fatally.
Our biggest flaw is that we are not intelligent enough to settle all of our disputes without resorting to cruelty and violence.
I imagine a trade school for gods in which different students design different parts of a universe. One student designed us humans as hiser project. Shehe did a very interesting job, but it isn’t exactly a masterpiece. B+
