Toothache? Look at all the machinery it takes -- root canal, special nerves. What possible good did all that do under the conditions in which it evolved? How did we respond to the resulting urgent signals when we were trotting around the African savannah, or swinging from trees, or whatever? Resolve to go to the dentist if we lived another 10^7 years? Those who believe in Providence rather than evolution have, IMO, some even fancier explaining to do.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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