We're Really Chimps???

So what was God thinking when He created the candiru fish for Adam to "play" with?The candiru is a small, blood-eating catfish that swims up the urethra of humans, and then deploys spines to irremovably lodge itself in the urethra and draw blood. The pain is immense to the point that some males resort to amputation of the penis to stop the pain. In others, the pain the candiru induces results in shock and death.What a "fun" environment with great "companions" to play with!I think the candiru points to an idea previously brought up in this thread - that its designer is necessarily cruel or stupid if "man" is the favored species.

I'm glad to know I had a part in the creation of thorns and thistles.So, everything bad in the world is Man's fault. Or more specifically, "first man's" fault. (Again seems like a God punishing an entire planet for one man's mistake is not such a nice God.)But to go back to the GLO gene - by your account Adam's best bud Skippy the Chimp was sitting next to him at lunch when Adam got zapped by the God's anti-GLO ray. Skippy's mutation was just collateral damage (shouldn't God have better aim?).Then what about guinea pigs and fruit bats? They both have non-functional GLO genes, but with different mutations than humans and chimps. How does God making guinea pigs and fruit bats scurvy-prone fit into your story?