Re: [Marxism] Poor Design Re. Clitoris, orgasm and Darwinism

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  One of Charles Darwin's insight, which enabled him to take apart the
> >  then prevailing theological view of life, is that nature is full of
> >  poor designs.  From the point of view of utility, many features of
> >  life, not just human life, are not really efficient, either for the
> >  purpose of individual survival or species reproduction.
>
> Massimo Pugliucci, a biology professor at the University of
> Tennessee, is fond of asking "if we were designed, why did the
> Designer run the sewer system right through the entertainment
> center?"
>
> Adam

Human beings, ever ingenious, have created myriad ways of putting
even poor designs to good use -- the mark of a species capable of
producing refined culture like no other.  In this case, a sizable
minority of human beings have found entertainment in the sewer
system!  "Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man. . .
. Cunning beyond fancy's dream is the fertile skill which brings him,
now to evil, now to good." -- Sophocles, _Antigone_
--
Yoshie

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