Design Flaws

I don't really know where this is going, but I might as well try to write something. After seeing Elrevert write something, I knew I must.

My topic is the human body. There are many people (who are mostly religious) who would have you believe that the human body is the perfect one, no faults whatsoever. How could anybody believe this?

It is quite extraordinary for something like the human body to survive as long as it has. There are so many weak points it is hard to account for them all. A simple knock to the head in a sensitve spot can kill you. A pinch of a pressure point can have you unconscious for hours. Falling on a slightly jagged rock the wrong way has the potential to a) create a hole in you, and b) really hurt. And that's just on the outside.

Inside there's no end of absolute rubbish going on, some of it also potentially fatal. A small clot in the bloodstream for example. There is no point in the appendix. Humans have not eaten grass for thousands of years (probably), yet everyone has one of these timebombs in them at birth, waiting to burst. Evolution has a lot to answer for. Why didn't we get rid of this and keep something good, like gills perhaps.

Think of all the other useless stuff. Easily blocked airways. Sweat. This one is borderline ridiculous. The scientific explanation for sweat is that it is meant to cool you down. Does it? Has anybody ever thought 'Thank goodness I'm sweating.' No, you take a drink because you're losing precious bodily fluid, and you'll feel terrible if you don't rehydrate. And excretion is riddled with faults. Couldn't excretion be converted in a way so that all extraneous waste was boiled, removed of colour and released odourlessly as a gas through the pores instead of sweat perhaps? Honestly...

I can only conclude that I have no real way of finishing this well, but I felt some of these things needed saying and that if only our body was better designed, think where we could be now. Presumably not living in danger of the (very real) threat of dying of an infected papercut.