Fundamentalist Creationists argue that Human Beings, “made in the image of God,” are so complex and advanced that they must have been designed by a “Super-Intelligent Creator.”

But Nature is full of creatures with inefficient features. For example, humans, like all mammals, breathe and eat through the same tube, making it easy to choke to death. Also, the laryngeal nerve descends below the larynx, loops around an artery in the chest, and then goes back up to the larynx.  As biologist Richard Dawkins has pointed out, this setup is not very efficient, especially if you are a giraffe! 

The human body suffers many common and chronic ailments which reflect poor “design.” We humans have weak backs that are prone to injury, spinal discs that could use better cushioning, knees that become arthritic from work or sports relatively early in life; bones that lose minerals after the age of 30, brains that too often clog up with amyloid plaques causing Alzheimer’s disease, teeth that often quickly decay without constant dental care, a urethra in men that runs through the prostate and therefore gets squeezed when the prostate enlarges with age, and many other “design problems.”  

  Amyloid plaques in the human brain cause Alzheimer’s disease.

Nature’s Continuing Creation says: If God is responsible for the “fine design” of us humans, then he must also be responsible for the “fine design” of the myriad microbes, viruses, and fungi that attack us so relentlessly and successfully!