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I have yet to see a human come up with a better design than God.
How many have you viewed, and what criterion do you use in
your assessment?
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Perhaps, you would care to describe something that you feel is better, I am very curious how and what that would be.
On a general level it is fairly trivial to show that the
current arrangement is inadequate.
The functions of ingesting food/drink and of the intake
of air are independent.
The larynx, as it exists, requires an air-flow to make
sounds.
Air intake is a safety critical function. If the air intake is
impededed for more than a few minutes (at most) severe damage
or death can be caused.
Food/drink intake is safety critical, as above, but the time
scale is somewhat longer (days).
Any system which has a single point of failure for TWO
independent safety critical systems cannot be considered
well-designed.
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Feel free to present an alternate design to our larynx, providing all the current functions whilst removing the choking hazard.
Provide independent air and food/drink intake orifices, and you
could still use the rest of the current design.
Take a radical, from scratch, approach to designing these functions
and I'm sure most people could provide something workable, that
avoids the problem.
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The alternate is NOT an imperfect God, just imperfect man who persists in his/her folly.
The issue is not really that a better design could be put forward,
but that the current arrangement is not optimal. There are
failure modes which would be unacceptable in a safety critical
design process.
If god designed this arrangement, he did so in a sub-optimal
manner which would suggest that he is imperfect.
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