The "Intelligent" Design Of The Human Body | Talk Heathen: Throwback

[@MooseMaunu]

"Rick" brought crayons to a human biology discussion with a doctor.

[@Arkloyd]

I fear crayons are beyond rick.

[@UnintelligentDesigner]

I think Rick's crayons melted because he keeps them up his nose and in ... other natural pockets.

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

Spoiler alert, Rick ate the crayons before the call

[@Arkloyd]

@ Before or after he huffed the model cement?

[@nuclearsimian3281]

Which explains why Rick continued to draw over everything that Ben was trying to say as a protest to actually having to engage with it.

[@DustinDustin00]

Anybody that says we are the product of Intelligent Design has never had a kidney stone.

[@UnintelligentDesigner]

Oof, been there.

[@tekbarrier]

I have, but I got super lucky because it passed completely painlessly 🙂 thanks be to Zeus!

[@UnintelligentDesigner]

@@tekbarrier Mine passed fairly easily -- just a twitch -- but I had days beforehand where at random I felt like my lower back was in a massive clamp while being kicked by a mule.

[@berryforce6017]

Or choked on food, or had appendicitis...

[@tiltingwindmill]

My 'summer of the kidney stones' was mighty rough. What intelligent designer would allow me to process healthy nuts and greens to form spiny rocks and then force those rocks through tubes which are too narrow to allow them to pass without notice? If there is a nature designer, it's effing pathetic at design. It's like someone who designs the magnetic bits of data to be too big to be effectively stored on the disk. (or something like that)

[@madeline6951]

I'm a biomedical engineer, basically a glorified computer scientist with specialized knowledge of medical data formats. We went through (VERY) basic classes on anatomy. When Dr. Ben asked how kidneys worked, I felt immediate dread. Like a kid waking up thinking they're late for an exam type of dread. And yet the caller is undeterred. Fascinating 😂

[@highwaydaytime7669]

That's because you have intellectual integrity and you care about the answer. The caller is a junkie who's probably wearing a tin foil hat just in case.

[@NickvonZ]

If an Engineer designed the human body, he or she would be FIRED immediately. At least 25 MAJOR design flaws can be cited right off the bat.

[@wmanjill]

Pleeeease do for the "nuh-uh" crowd ❤

[@MrNeocortex]

​@@wmanjillFor a start we eat, drink and breath through the same hole. As a result, people choke to death every day. An intelligent designer would have made those two separate. They mentioned the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It branches off left vagus nerve at a point near the heart, loops under the aortic arch, and heads back up the the larynx, where the vagus nerve has already passed when coming down from the brain. An unnecessarily long route that also occurs in a giraffe, leading to an extra long nerve for no reason. The superior laryngeal nerve branches off the other vagus nerve in the neck and goes a few inches to the larynx. The optic nerve to each eye goes through the retina itself, creating a blind spot that our brains just ignore. That doesn't sound like an intelligent design, especially when it's not common to all animals. There are the only ones I can think of.

[@hrjenkins]

​@@MrNeocortex Don't forget the disgustingly weak ankle. Humans do like 1% of activity compared to most other animals. And who has more twisted ankles? We do. Why? Cuz our legs and bodies weren't designed to walk to 2 legs. It was supposed to walk on 4

[@son-of-a-gun]

Rick is a rambling nutcase

[@NickvonZ]

@son-of-a-gun 😸👍

[@RossJames-i6s]

Rick says it looks like after 4 years of diligent study and hard work he will soon have that grade 6 diploma to put on the fridge.

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

Keep going, buddy! We're super proud of you!

[@greeneyedlady5580]

He has a fridge? 😳

[@amp888]

Hey, Rick...have you ever almost died choking to death because a piece of food didn't go down correctly when you swallowed it? I have, and it suggested to me that perhaps my body either wasn't intelligently designed, or if it was then the designer wasn't particularly intelligent.

[@BobbyFriston]

You should have used your God given teeth to chew properly first.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

I went into septic shock a few years ago, and would have died if the pain from a fall (I got a compression fracture in my spine) hadn't shocked my brain enough to get me to make a phone call for help. I was in intensive care for days. It turned out that I had pneumonia from aspirating a bit of something into my lung. It was a very close call, because of that very bad design.

[@mckorr2116]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 6 years old. My eyes were not intelligently designed. I'm bipolar. My brain was not intelligently designed. I'm allergic to poultry, can't eat chicken (yes, it sucks.) My immune system was not intelligently designed. Both knees are shot, my back, my neck, AND I have leukemia due to chromosomal mutation. I'm sorry, no intelligent being would design a human body in this way.

[@Goldenhawk583]

You have probably heard this a thousand times, if so, I apologize for being annoying. But.. have you tried teh carnivore diet? Many has found relief, even complete healing from several of the issues you mentioned. Perhaps avoid poultry though, until the allergy is gone:)

[@fanofentropy2280]

My replacement knee was intelligently designed. The original was crap.

[@bradweir]

👍

[@charlottemacmaster3221]

This 😭

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Good answer ❤🎉

[@MooseMaunu]

"Intelligent design?" How intelligent is it to design a body to exist on a planet that is 71% covered with water without gills?

[@joehorn1762]

It's worse than that. We need to drink water to live, but most of it is undrinkable unless we process it.

[@AngelMass]

Or the "Intelligent design" of the eye. You know, the light receptive organ which happens to have a nerve crossing part of it, blocking the light and generating a blind spot in our vision...

[@iridios6127]

​​​​@@joehorn1762 B-u-u-u-t, we don't need to process water, Sun do it for us. Just like the most of energy consumptive processes on surface on Earth, even oxygen regeneration (water and CO2 also involved).

[@taomaster2486]

I rly love my breathing hole next to my drinking and eating hole it didnt cause any problems ever

[@iridios6127]

@@joehorn1762 We don't need process water - Sun do most job for us.

[@rakitakhan]

This is why I have a shirt that says " Too stupid for science ? Try religion." . This guy is a perfect example.

[@VitoDRF]

"Im absolutely an expert on my body." "Can you tell me how your kidneys work?" "That's an appeal to authority!"

[@Arkloyd]

Yes, rick, a book that was written at the third grade level was hard for you to understand. Now I know all I need to know about why you believe.

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

Rick went as far as 8th grade by his own admission. He is an elite thinker

[@Arkloyd]

@@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral His intellect is truly staggering.

[@charlottemacmaster3221]

@@ArkloydWisdom has been chasing him his whole life, yet he has always been faster 😌

[@brucewilliams4152]

When morons call in, perfect example of this Rick

[@rickb1649]

Maybe Rick hasn't heard of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. How is a giraffe intelligently designed with a recurrent laryngeal nerve about 16 feet long instead of a few inches??

[@Moriningland]

I’m so glad my airway is in the same place I constantly need to chew solid objects

[@sirilay]

Johnny P: You've got to slow your roll. Rick: *does the exact opposite forever*

[@akizeta]

I almost drowned in the shower laughing at the stem-cell to bone marrow to bone to rib to Adam argument.

[@Rubbafingaz1]

Humans can live without many organs, including the appendix, gallbladder, and spleen. Other organs etc. humans can live without include: One lung One kidney Adenoids Tonsils Some lymph nodes The fibula bones from each leg Six of your ribs You can also live well with just one kidney.....

[@feedingravens]

I love these one-man denominations - he understands that all these groupings are bunk. But he still has this urge to elevate himself be being the image of an almighty being, that created a complete universe to house him, that he is so important for the omnipotent entity that it observes him 24/7, reads all his thoughts, even in his sleep. And by NOT belonging to any specific denomination, he does not need to align with any other ideas of "colleagues". He can pick whatever he likes from the Bible, omit anything he dislikes, no one can come with inconvenient quotes - and you can shift your position in any way you like, either over time or situational, and religion trains you to not even perceive these changes of the ONE, unchanging, eternal Truth that you own.

[@rogantu]

As someone who started getting gallbladder attacks at age 30, I can say with 100% confidence the human body is not intelligently designed. If it was designed at all it's a torture device. I could point out over 20 different parts of the human body that are flawed if not outright harmful to us in different ways off the top of my head, and there are way more flawed parts in there.

[@tlebeck]

Rick is insufferable

[@ronthered138]

He is an overbearing blowhard.

[@chefroxstarr9467]

Well said. He is seriously the angriest and most condescending and also annoying Christian on earth

[@canbest7668]

The rib???? As soon as you invoke Adam and Eve you have lost credibility.

[@UnintelligentDesigner]

What, you don't believe in Dirt Man and BBQ-leftovers Woman? 😂

[@canbest7668]

@ that made me laugh!

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

Rick really thinks it is some gotcha moment. He's an adult and he thinks all this talk of magic ribs is real. The only magic rib I know of is the McRib.

[@canbest7668]

@@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral It's amazing/disappointing/frightening that most adults believe in magic 'cause a book said so and faith/a special feeling. And now I miss the McRib!

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

I bet he thinks that women have one more rib than men do.

[@perks6292]

The fact that he have to excrete waste from our bodies proves that it's not intelligently designed

[@BinarySecond]

Why is the penis multi function? Awful design.

[@ChristianIce]

13:13 There you go.

[@tonyfendex2558]

The doctor was TOO SOFT ON THIS Guy. He should've taught this believer a few mistakes in the design of our bodies.

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

I think the doctor who delivered this guy pressed a bit too hard on the TOO SOFT area of a newborn's head! 🤭

[@gsevere2073]

My knee has to be replaced. My back pain is chronic. A very poor design by someone whose followers say is perfection. It's a bunch of crap!

[@golach420]

Is Rick high on the call? Rick appears to be somewhat obsessive. Has he substituted H for JC after being converted at a low point in his life?

[@knutsparell3619]

We can safely asume that the answer to your second question is "yes".

[@CH2011-a]

Good question. I became a Christian at the lowest point in my life. The idea of an all-loving god and a redeemer who loved me enough to die so I could have eternal life gave me the comfort, peace and acceptance I needed so badly. I have since learned how to have those things without the need to believe in a god who is really saying "love me or else."

[@TomRoatch]

The humans body barely functions if we were created the architect is an idiot

[@GIGIF184]

If god designed us he’s either imperfect or he designed us to suffer.

[@GSC1ark]

Rick is an example of Dunning-Krugger. An idiot genius. 🩷🤍🩵

[@Sammie551]

I enjoyed this ❤ Thank you Talk Heathen

[@josephinekush5056]

As a Canadian, I'm always embarrassed when fellow Canadians call in & spout such silly ignorant nonsense. There was a time when organized religion was dying in this country. A time when Pierre Berton's book, The Comfortable Pew was a national best seller & we all felt we were finally freeing ourselves of thoughtless dogma. Then came the explosion of American media & with it the scourge of foreign-based evangelical trash that unfortunately has found root in Canadian society. And when a Canadian spouts American Christian nationalism it really saddens me. They have no understanding of who we are, where we come from and how we created this wonderful progressive nation. It's a failure of our educational system.

[@mrsatire9475]

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug" - Rick

[@blitzkreg182]

Our bodies break easy and we are able to fix it. Does that mean we are more intelligent than the designer?

[@timothybrown5999]

This is the same guy who claimed he “studied all the languages” to prove the Tower of Babel really happened. He claimed Japanese and Hebrew have many words in common but couldn’t say one Japanese word. He’s convinced of his intelligence but has yet to find anyone else in agreement.

[@stevenna2918]

So if Intelligent Design is needed, who created the Intelligent Design in the first place??!! Also, if my body is perfect, why is my back sore, eye can't see all that well, hair falling out, ect. Perfection at it''s finest. Thanks GOD.

[@RozzieBass]

Putting the food hole with the breathing hole is the most unintelligent design of all!

[@VanHalenIsolated]

Computer have only been developing in the last 100 years. Life has been developing naturally for 4 billion years

[@LOwens-xf8yo]

Life is perfect because of god, & imperfect because of sin! Heads-god wins, tails-man loses. That way they are never wrong! Lol

[@CH2011-a]

I love your reply! I was thinking this but you said it perfectly. The whole bible is about shifting the responsibility for pain, suffering, wars, genocide, natural disasters etc. from God to Adam because he gave his dominion over God's creation to the devil and all mankind became a slave to sin. And how is this all going to reversed - in the convenient concept of an afterlife. Like Rick, I truly believed this once but thankfully not anymore.

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

I googled "Dunning Kruger" and it sent me here

[@roberthaas2237]

Man has been on earth for 300,000 years in that time things have changed we live. We die changes so hard for some people.

[@dom11949]

i have a body and half a brain so, of course, i know best about everything i have never studied.

[@hermionegardener3796]

Who would design a toxic waste dump right next to a fun park?

[@Leith_Crowther]

Republicans.

[@brucebaker810]

News flash: the dump is part of the park.

[@zap...]

Tinnitus is the most amazing design of the human body.

[@enricopajaro4046]

He is the living contradiction to his own point

[@Failurebydesign7]

Guess promises aren't eternal after all!

[@thomasreynolds3805]

Eighth grade education was all I needed to hear... 😂

[@garystokes9979]

Arguments for intelligent design are not intelligent. The human spine is NOT sufficiently evolved for our upright posture, resulting in all manner of issues with our backs and pain. I was born with a hereditary dry skin condition that the young ladies found to be unattractive and made it hard to find a partner. I have congenital abnormalities with the left side of my pelvis that is permanently injured and rather painful which affects my mobility. So DON'T tell me that I am intelligently "designed" and the caller is delusional as are all theists.if he thinks he's intelligent, or designed. Oh, and I'm also long sighted too.

[@tedgrant2]

When I look at my body, I can tell it was designed by Tinkerbell.

[@adamstrange7884]

Can't drink salt water our body is OF THE SMORTS!

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

I'm sorry, but the moment a person reveals that they believe the Garden of Eden story is actual history is the moment you stop paying any attention to them at all, except to stop them from hurting you.

[@peteperson855]

"The way our body heals". Oh, you mean poorly. Here I am with arthritis because joint cartilage doesn't heal worth a shit.

[@ronthered138]

Wow, I used to think that UK Muslims were the dumbest callers, but the latest crop from Canada is scary. Please, please, please ask the call screeners to ask the callers which province they are from. I need to know if I have to move!

[@tekbarrier]

I'm no expert, but I find it very hard to believe that a rib is the only place we can get stem cells from. Also, there are many bones we can live without, including all of the bones in our arms and legs and hands and feet.

[@susansokoloski2233]

The body heals...except when it doesn't or is incapable. The throat is designed to choke to death on food. The brain is designed to have innumerable faults to damage or destroy the body, the immune system so often over performs or underperforms to damage or destroy life, the GI tract can self destruct, life can continue without limb bones and/or a defective spinal column, a huge percentage of people have vision problems that can cause fatality by poor vision, all organs of the body can fail or not develop properly...often detrimental to life, the human appendix has a function but can be lived without...or potentially kill it's owner, cells become too reproductive and become cancer...including fetuses which can become cancerous (molar pregnancy) which will kill both the fetus and pregnant woman, over 50% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, pregnancy can often result in the death of the pregnant animal (inculding humans), in horses...colic kills because they are incapable of vomiting, so many more design flaws in all species to list. Earth life is chance design, a design that is most likely to survive to procreate successfully, but often fails...nothing more. That designer must be both fired and brought up on charges of incompetence, negligence and fatalities.

[@nj1978]

Rich was so angry throughout 😂😂😂

[@SprightlyGnome]

A common tube for breathing and eating. A laryngeal nerve that takes the scenic route aaaaaall the way down to the heart to wind up back in the head 2 inches from where it started. A reproductive tract right next to the excretory tract. A jaw too small for all our teeth. An inside out retina. Vertebral discs right next to our spinal cord causing paralysis with minor back injuries. The goddamn knee joint. I could go on, but basically our bodies suck.

[@LE1987_]

It's pretty clear from his audible agitation that this guy is not used to having anyone challenge the baloney he's spouting. Tried to break out into a full-on Gish Gallop multiple times, too. Pretty disappointing when the caller is this disinterested in hearing out the hosts.

[@DavidSmith-gj3gi]

say Intelligent Design one more time, Rick

[@shanewilson7994]

Did he say he slaughtered his entire family? Umm, pretty sure even in Canada, he's not gonna be free after that.

[@akizeta]

The domination of the Earth argument is a bit weak. You know what else dominated the Earth before becoming one with the rocks? Dinosaurs. And giant insects, and trilobites, and anaerobic bacteria (though that last one still lurks around to infect wounds and stuff).

[@2thousand336]

Well we do know one thing Rick. You are not a part of that intelligent design😂!

[@petyrkowalski9887]

The body..in fact all mammals are riddled with flaws such as the fact we breath, eat and drink down the same tube, we have genetic flaws lesding to congenital diseases, we have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, the larangeal nerve etc etc etc.

[@decay79]

Why would you need the exact way to clone a human when you just made one out of dirt earlier ?.. Rick is correct no matter if he is real or not he changes peoples lives, he's certainly turned a lot of folks down the road of stupid.

[@EzFlyers10]

Dunning-Kruger effect

[@ekipogh]

There is no intelligent design in Ricks body. In fact there is no intelligence at all.

[@ziggy4thefacts441]

My appendix n knee physiology say ID is closer to unintelligent design

[@brianmonks8657]

Wait a few decades then get back to us about how great your body is doing.

[@SkulldugerySmiles]

Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. DOH!

[@WarriorOfEden3033]

Religion is one hell of a drug

[@Live2Win200]

Appendix !! Was it put there for a reason by an intelligent designer? This caller is so dumb

[@bobkuifje2659]

He is the living proof against intelligent design😮

[@jokermtb]

External testicles are arguably proof of perhaps lazy-design, but not intelligent design (one of the worst designs ever). Dolphins have internal testicles, so it’s possible to design it right.

[@taketheatrain5393]

I think Rick needs to cut back on the caffeine!

[@mariesmit5778]

I wish had a bone! 😂

[@iridios6127]

Eve not was an Adam clone. His clone must be is - Adam.

[@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος]

Cloning needs bonemarrow, Bonemarrow from the rib, thus Eve existed, thus gawd of the buybull is true

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

What does thanatos kortophagos mean?

[@Goldenhawk583]

if you clone someone, you will not get a different gendered person.. you will get one that is almost identical to the original.. Eve can not be a clone of adam.

[@tiltingwindmill]

Um, I'm pretty sure whole limbs can be amputated. Or did I misunderstand the caller's childish rant about bones?

[@brucebaker810]

Rick paused ... 3 times in 15 minutes?

[@Goldenhawk583]

Soooo, god cloned a human from Adams rib.. creating an Eve without boobs, but with a penis ( and looking exactly like Adam).

[@Bill_Castle7]

I think the host could have handled this question better.

[@dalecs47]

Religious lies of omission: Religious people never speak the next step after we are all accepting their god. The next step being that we have to do what THEY tell us to do and we have to give THEM our money. It is NEVER as simple as "Believe in god and then everything is fine." Religion is and always will be about power and money. When they do not tell you, then they are lying to you!

[@berrywin]

Ric talks about how intelligent designed man is and believes in the Adam and Eve myth. Case closed.

[@adamstrange7884]

The pie hole is on top of the air holes, not so smart!

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

Gee, I wonder why our bodies don't immediately collapse when confronted with the environment they developed in! I can't think of any reason that we don't just collapse like jelly at the slightest provocation unless God make us perfect! What a silly person.

[@ejflor1313]

Rick why you talking so fast

[@bubbercakes528]

This guy supports white nationalism but he agrees that we should love one another as we love ourselves? When I see or hear a white nationalist speak, the last thing I hear is love for our fellow man!🤨

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

LOL! How can someone be so childishly ignorant?

[@jokermtb]

You don’t technically need a tibia

[@Gerryjournal]

Intelligent design? Obviously the designer is not too bright. There are so many useless body parts, and so many poorly 'designed' parts. Human eyes are absurd, feet have 23 bones but need only 3, etx, etc

[@Sammie551]

Why didn't you tell him about all natural disasters, pathogens and cancers ??

[@kowoh]

Rick needs to believe all this tabloid theism or he’ll loose all hope and go back to drugs. He’s admitted on prior calls. That’s why he is so defensive and un-hinged

[@roberthaas2237]

Yes, you have a body, but you have no idea how it works and when you don’t understand something, it’s God’s fault

[@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral]

I have seen some clumsy and dumb people who also have bodies but they are definitely not experts

[@Steve0272.]

False ! , the rib like most other large bones can be used so his " it's the only way to do it and the bible says he took a rib " ... is WRONG !

[@johniec5282]

How does this caller know there is an intelligent designer behind curtains? How does it do anything? What does it look like? Methinks he is just making sh1t up.

[@ChrisM-zm4li]

Goofball, you AREN'T giving them reasons. You just keep saying over and over how amazing you think it all is and how it has to be designed. So childish.

[@onijisan909]

Rick, dude, that was just embarrassing. Don't quit your day job.

[@RafaelRodrigues-vj7he]

chimarrão?

[@TimHass-qe9er]

How do they still let this dude on the show? So many years worth of him calling just to stick his fingers in his ears and say “La la la la la” whenever he’s faced with data, or facts, or valid and sound arguments. This guest is almost as bad as Mr. Deliceaux

[@Francescojg]

These 2 hosts aren’t very good at arguing/debating. Need to keep the caller on a single point before moving on