# God as an engineer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 28, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646 "2012-07-28T04:28:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646/61 "2012-08-01T13:07:33Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> :dubious: I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for an explanation of how the world would be the worse without the guinea worm.

If you’re waiting for an explanation from me, you’ve entirely missed my point.

Just thought I’d let you know before your legs go numb.

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646/62 "2012-08-04T02:40:56Z")

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> [@dataguy](#):
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> If you’re waiting for an explanation from me, you’ve entirely missed my point.
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> Just thought I’d let you know before your legs go numb.

The choices you offered that I’ve accepted was:  
**A. Create a world and we’ll compare it to this one**  
And I chose one exactly like this one, minus guinea worms. Other than losing human suffering, show me how the ecology of the planet would suffer.

Does that _do_?

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646/63 "2012-08-04T03:28:02Z")

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Have you no thought for the micro-parasites which infect the Guinea Worm? Why, you’ve disrupted an entire food-chain and micro-habitat! The consequences might be felt for…oh…entire centimeters!

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-as-an-engineer/629646/64 "2012-08-06T14:18:26Z")

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> Not a good engineer. The human waste lines empty in the middle of a recreational area.

Snerk.

I asked a doctor once what he thought was the biggest design flaw in the human body (what would he improve), and his response was: the coronary artery. A human can’t survive without a heart, and yet there is just one fragile little artery delivering oxygenated blood to it, keeping the heart alive. It’s a system in desperate need of a backup.

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