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49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 October 2007 01:59AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2015 09:17:32PM 3 points [-]

A list that pops up for me, but I don't think they are exactly unusual (and most if not all of them can be found somewhere on this blog):

Pain, suffering, death, injustice, etc.
Why did rabbits evolve to evade foxes and foxes to catch rabbits?
Why would elephants starve to death after they have lost their last teeth, going through all that suffering? Why not a painless death?
Why all those design inefficiencies (eyes backwards, testicles on the outside, ...)?
Is there anything that is actually evidence for the existence of god?

Comment author: Vaniver 06 April 2015 09:23:40PM 2 points [-]

testicles on the outside

I thought this made obvious sense for temperature regulation reasons. (The eye is a much stronger example.)

Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2015 09:28:34PM 2 points [-]

I agree, if you are limited to the stupid designs that natural selection can produce. But if you are god, you should be able to do better!