Uncommon Descent: "Bill Dembski answers, How do we explain bad design?"

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).

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Triablogue: A problem with arguments from poor design

The commenters are right. This world is already a complex and theodical one on the biblical worldview, in which Proverbs are expressed though comparisions of the animal kingdom, character is built through paradoxes and physical hardship, and designs which appear at first not to be optimal are in fact good.