What about the human brain.If god is all knowing and has a plan like all the religious people would have you believe, why would a God create a brain in a human that would eventually develop the ability to destroy all plant and animal life that will ultimately lead to the next great extinction.Ths would be the ultimate bad design.

Sinuses. Let's design a wet bag with drainage holes at the top. Yeah.

Also, the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which takes a huge detour en route to its destination. If you think we have it bad, pity the poor giraffe.

Gullibility. It's too damn easy to brainwash us. A god who created us should have given us the ability to distinguish between false gods and the genuine article.

Maybe we were unfortunate enough to get an apprentice God stumbling through his first creation.

He needs to come back and honor the warranty for knees and spinal discs. Things should work well after prime reproductive years too.

Once you realize Loki is the one true god, it all makes perfect sense.

In my opinion by far the best example of appallingly bad design, but something which makes perfect sense through the prism of evolution, is the recurrent laryngial nerve. This nerve runs from the brain to the larynx (obviously), but it has a rather circuitous path being looped around the aorta. And if you think that's pretty weird in a human, it does the same thing in a giraffe and probably did in a brontosaurus). In our fish ancestors this nerve ran from the brain to the gills, and past what passed for a heart. As vertebrates evolved from fish the gills became the larynx, and the heart moved down into the chest cavity taking the laryngial nerve with it.

You forgot knees! Not only our knees, but dog knees too...designed to fail under stress!

Where do you think your tail bone came from? (Old joke in anthropology classes).

All very valid points! And why does the sun give us skin cancer?

We all should then be very glad no god

Another example of ' poor design by God' is the appendix in humans.
Where once it was vital in aiding digestion solely of vegetable fibres in a herbivorous diet, humans are now, for the most part, omnivorous thus the appendix has become obsolete and often gets badly infected/inflamed causing either removal or resulting in a most painful and slow death when left untreated.
Why did this " Intelligent Designer' decide that mammals should have their birth canals placed in such close proximity to their biological waste ' outlets' which are prime source of innumerably dangerous and often fatal infective agents?
Why did this 'Intelligent Designer' deem it right to have some creations capable of regenerating lost limbs/extremities and others not to have such a capability?
Why did this ' Intelligent Designer' make it that humans, its greatest creation btw, are only capable of having 1 pregnancy in a period of 12 months, with an average of 1 off-spring per pregnancy when other mammals in particular, e.g. cats, dogs, rats, mice, etc, can have multiple pregnancies with multiple off-spring in each pregnancy?

A further interesting example is our acquired inability to make our own vitamin c. I say acquired because most other animals, including most other vertebrates, make their own. Primates cannot. Somewhere the ancestor of all primates got a faulty copy of the vitamin c making gene (which we still carry - we have a copy of the gene, but it is broken). Since primates evolved in Africa where there was plenty of vitamin c containing fruit around there was probably no selection pressure against animals that needed to get their vitamin c from external sources. Interestingly until early versions of the genus Homo, with their superior brains, came along there were no primates in Europe perhaps due to the lack of vitamin c in the available food.

Vitamin B12 is interesting too. We can manufacture B12 in our gut, but that happens lower down than where B12 is absorbed. So we can be B12 deficient while shitting out tons of the stuff!

How about the fact that every cell in the today needs glucose for fuel but glucose cannot pass through the the cell membrane without being bound to an insulin molecule. Type 1 diabetes don't make insulin anymore. Type 2 diabetes the insulin that gets made is messed. What's up with that? Why even require insulin at all?

If humans were subject to health department standards, we'd get shut down like dirty restaurants.
Anytime anyone tries that "intelligent design" stupidity on me, I laugh at them.
That's usually enough to make them stop.

The 'duplication' argument, or bilateral symmetry, is probably best left out. Too many reasons for that being an evolutionary advantage. Other than that, not a bad list. & I think you mean 'basal' neurons, not nasal!!!

Not a bad list... there’s certainly a lot wrong with the animal kingdom as well for an all-knowing, all-powerful creator. It just makes me wonder if the Christian church fathers really thought it through before they made that claim.

Aside from all the above, and they're all good points, the one thing that makes the the notion of 'intelligent design' that seems utterly ridiculous is that 99.9% all things/creatues that have ever lived are now extinct. What's intelligent about that?

My other favourite intelligent design nonsense is that the one thing we need for life, the sun, also gives you cancer. That seems pretty intelligent too

God is so brilliant he gave plants and trees photosynthesis allowing them to get energy without any effort. Then he she it creates human, the perfect in his image and says this:
To maintain living you must consume fresh kill. If you do not kill something, plant or animal, you will perish. Now that is one intelligent design. And then we turn around and worship this nut job.

There is no god! That is the purpose of AGNOSTIC.COM isn't it?

I agree but we talking about a fiction thing of course it going to fail biology.
It like someone claiming to be a car mechanic and not know anything about cars...
That there god....

Also question needing something as harmful as oxygen to live. What a god damned educational post and posts.

Number 4. "Juxtaposition of the food tube and the air tube and thus people can (and do) choke to death - " You could add that most other animals do not suffer from this feature. If he could get it right for them ?

God...

Strongly disapproves of masturbation. Makes arms just the right length to do it.

Strongly disapproves of men having sex with men. Puts the prostate gland 'just there' and makes it one of the most sexually sensitive parts of the male body.

What about deliberate design? Lol