Design of the Penguins

The below text was sent to the Scientific American Magazine in reply to an article published in December 2005 under the monthly ANTIGRAVITY column. In this article Mr Mirsky tries to prove that life as we know it is not the result of a design but came to what it is now by evolution.

Dear Editors,

I have comments on Mr Mirsky's ANTIGRAVITY -December 2005 issue.

I tried to guess whether Mr Mirsky Intelligently designed his article to raise doubts about his own suggestions, thus making the readers realize that there is really intelligent design that brought life to what it is now!

He wanted to demonstrate by contradiction that, for example, if the penguins are designed the way they are now then their egg shell should be more thick to allow it to rest on ice without being damaged! Thus the penguins will not need to carry it! Well, in my opinion the penguin do what it's doing simply because the design is really intelligent! If the egg shell was more thick, then it will be impossible for the small penguin to get out of it!

Also we must realize that the term "Intelligent Design" indicates that there is a designer. Religions call him God. He has great purposes. He is not only a designer, he also gives life. Holding that egg for that long time is an act of great love and sacrifice. Life without consciousness is without value. it's void.

For me the intelligent design is far more intelligent than to be seen directly as people usually expect to see it. The Intelligent design is so intelligent that it uses the evolution itself to design the world. This is God and to this extent his is so mighty.

Thank you

Elie Constantine

Nice View !?

In the morning my lovely baby Anastasia woke me up before six o'clock! I hugged her between my arms for 1 hour then I took this picture from my balcony. It starts to be breezy....
I like this view but I think I would like to change it. The view from my wife's home in Russia is much more nice, in my point of view, of course. it's a forest, in summer painted in green and in winter painted with a freeze white and grey.