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I was wondering last night why human bodies are designed so poorly if there is an Intellegent Designer behind it all.

Don't get me wrong, I think human bodies are pretty amazing and they fascinate me. I just wonder why they aren't made better.

One example I was thinking about was the danger of childbirth. If having children is so important (which it is in LDS theology) why make it so dangerous? It really isn't until recently that childbirth has become a much more safe proposition for women of the earth. Heck, being born and infancy has also been a very precarious time for most of history.

I'm obviously not the first person to think about these things. Here are some things that scientists came up with. It's pretty neat.

just me wrote:One example I was thinking about was the danger of childbirth. If having children is so important (which it is in LDS theology) why make it so dangerous?

Women wouldn't appreciate and take care of their children properly if it wasn't so dangerous to get them. That's why god designed it that way.

brade wrote:

just me wrote:One example I was thinking about was the danger of childbirth. If having children is so important (which it is in LDS theology) why make it so dangerous?

Women wouldn't appreciate and take care of their children properly if it wasn't so dangerous to get them. That's why god designed it that way.

Haha. It's impossible to take care of your baby properly when you die in childbirth, or the infant dies.

just me wrote:I was wondering last night why human bodies are designed so poorly if there is an Intellegent Designer behind it all.

Don't get me wrong, I think human bodies are pretty amazing and they fascinate me. I just wonder why they aren't made better.

One example I was thinking about was the danger of childbirth. If having children is so important (which it is in LDS theology) why make it so dangerous? It really isn't until recently that childbirth has become a much more safe proposition for women of the earth. Heck, being born and infancy has also been a very precarious time for most of history.

I'm obviously not the first person to think about these things. Here are some things that scientists came up with. It's pretty neat.

This is what gets me every time about the idea that we're intelligently designed. Some of these "design choices" are nuts.

If a baby dies from SIDS, what that really means is that she/he died from Semi-Intelligent Design Syndrome.

A professor I had in college explained it well. If our craniums were larger so as to fit more intelligence then women would either need huge hips or babies could not be born naturally. The larger hips would be a disadvantage in regards to survival if speed and endurance were necessary at times. If smaller, we would not be intelligent enough to comprehend the concept in the first place.

just me wrote:
Haha. It's impossible to take care of your baby properly when you die in childbirth, or the infant dies.

That's a risk God was apparently willing to take.

brade wrote:

just me wrote:
Haha. It's impossible to take care of your baby properly when you die in childbirth, or the infant dies.

That's a risk God was apparently willing to take.

So you really believe that mother and infant mortality rates have been so high in days gone by through design? God wanted lots and lots and lots of women and babies to die so that children would be "appreciated?"

just me wrote:

brade wrote:That's a risk God was apparently willing to take.

So you really believe that mother and infant mortality rates have been so high in days gone by through design? God wanted lots and lots and lots of women and babies to die so that children would be "appreciated?"

I think he's being sarcastic.

Well, I hope so, but what do I know? And you totally caught my typo, dammit.

This is a good example of why Mormonism holds a better position on it. Afterall, God didn't design us from nuttin'. Plus, we're eternal beings. These frailties are cured in immortality.