It’s called “Intelligent Design,” thus assuming that the design had some modicum of intelligence.
I give you Exhibit A: The duck-billed platypus
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
You may enjoy this. I know I did.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jpicon/833962.html
Surely you are not suggested that someone created something that ugly by mistake?
Maybe it should be called “Design with a Sense of Humor”?
I’m thinking that the design of the platypus is anything but intelligent.
Proof that God has a sense of humor, yes. Proof that He wasn’t paying attention when He made the platypus, yes. Intelligent design? Feh.