Via Triablogue: Bill Dembski answers, How do we explain bad design?
Theodical appeals complicate the matter. Nonetheless it remains true that processes and plans of engineering and design often involve trade-offs. A sad example would be one of beauty and low cost: the apparent reason we’re seeing the construction of hopelessly insipid bridges of the cable-stayed design nowadays (e.g. the Zakim and Sunshine Skyway Bridges) as opposed to suspension bridges (e.g. the Verrazano-Narrows and Golden Gate Bridges) and cantilever bridges (e.g. the Queensboro Bridge).
Theodical appeals complicate the matter. Nonetheless it remains true that processes and plans of engineering and design often involve trade-offs. A sad example would be one of beauty and low cost: the apparent reason we’re seeing the construction of hopelessly insipid bridges of the cable-stayed design nowadays (e.g. the Zakim and Sunshine Skyway Bridges) as opposed to suspension bridges (e.g. the Verrazano-Narrows and Golden Gate Bridges) and cantilever bridges (e.g. the Queensboro Bridge).
No comments:
Post a Comment