Sunday, November 13, 2005

The God of Small Things:

If there is an intelligent designer, the box jellyfish was surely one of his weirdest ideas. This deadly sea creature has 24 eyes, four rudimentary brains and 60 anuses.


That wacky unspecified-omnipotent-mystical-being.

The drainage holes at the top of our sinuses and the way our guts are attached by a membrane to the backbone are good examples. Both designs are fine for four-legged creatures, but now we have evolved to walk upright, they lead to clogged sinuses and hernias, he says.

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