"‘Evolution,’ [Leslie Orgel] said, ‘is smarter than you are.’ But this compliment to the ‘intelligence’ of natural selection is not by any means a concession to the stupid notion of ‘intelligent design’. Some of the results are extremely impressive, as we are bound to think in our own case. (‘What piece of work is a man!’ as Hamlet exclaims, before going on to contradict himself somewhat by describing the result as a ‘quintessence of dust’; both statements having the merit of being true.) But the process by which the results are obtained is slow and infinitely laborious, and has given us a DNA ‘string’ which is crowded with useless junk and which has more in common with much lower creatures. The stamp of the lowly origin is to be found in our appendix, in the now needless coat of hair that we still grow (and then shed) after 5 months in the womb, in our easily worn-out knees, our vestigal tails, and the many caprices of our urinogenital arrangements. Why do people keep saying, ‘God is in the details’? He isn’t in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence."
from god is not Great: the Case Against Religion by Christopher Hitchens
