[snip] Not-so-intelligent design. “Would an intelligent designer create millions of species and then make them go extinct, only to replace them with other species, repeating this process over and over again?” asks the University of Chicago’s Jerry Coyne in the New Republic. “Would an intelligent designer produce animals having a mixture of mammalian and reptilian traits, at exactly the time when reptiles are thought to have been evolving into mammals? Why did the designer give tiny, non-functional wings to kiwi birds? Or useless eyes to cave animals?”
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[snip] So when’s the game on? “The US is unique in playing the national anthem before every game,” writes Dave Zirin in the Nation. “We are unique in employing scantily clad women to tell us when to ‘cheer.’ We are unique in calling the winners of our domestic leagues ‘world champions.’”
