design evidence #320,098,754: the crossover food and air tubes in humans

Sonnikke:

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And a motorcycle was designed by an intelligent designer.
Usually evo's frown upon me when I use inanimate designed objects as an analogy of evidence to God's design in this universe, but hey.

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You had asked if we terrible original sinners could design anything more efficient than biological systems. And I provided you with an example -- motorcycles vs. horses as vehicles. Now you whine that I had used an example of human design.Furthermore, motorcycles and their parts have had numerous designers over the years -- and biological systems had also had numerous designers if their features had been designed.

I must apologise Sonnike -First for not rereading the thread before posting that you were making threats.Second, for making off-topic remarks, thereby encouraging others to do so. What are your replies to the various criticisms of your post #5?------------------
And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried -
'Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald

There is another German expression:Er hat ein Vogel.

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I have yet to see a human come up with a better design than God.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.