{"id":9210,"date":"2006-01-23T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/but-intelligently-designed-for-what.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:27:46","slug":"but_intelligent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/but_intelligent.html","title":{"rendered":"“But Intelligently Designed for what?<\/i>“"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An interesting thought exercise of how, if Intelligent Design is true, the Designer might have been actually been focused on Giant Squid rather than Human Beings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Invoking Occam’s razor together with our Creation hypothesis leaves us with only one reasonable explanation. The world was created as a habitat for the giant squid. Humans were put here to control the large predators that would otherwise bother the giant squid. Our habitat is on land, so that our interference with the squids’ lifestyle is minimal. We build boats that use only the upper surface of the oceans. We hunt and kill all but one of the large marine predators. We are programmed to ignore the giant squid, and to not take actions that would harm them.<\/p>\n

The problem with trying to figure out the mind of God is that either you let it take you where you really want to go, or you end up in some rather uncomfortable places …<\/p>\n

(via the Flea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting thought exercise of how, if Intelligent Design is true, the Designer might have been actually been focused on Giant Squid rather than Human Beings. 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