MELISSA BLOCK, host: Commentator Brian McConnachie has been collecting his thoughts on the      subject of intelligent design.  Here they are.</s>If intelligent design really wants equal billing, it might want to      address a short list of grievances that include: head lice, ticks and      mole rats, vultures and typhoons, migraines, earthquakes and tornadoes,      crab apples, poison mushrooms, killer bees, fire ants, harelip and poison      ivy, quicksand, hurricanes and termites, black holes in the universe,      spiders that lay their eggs in the brains of other spiders, plantar warts      and gangrene, vampire bats, wisdom teeth and frostbite, sinus pain,      pederasty, incest and the hiccups, abstract expressionism, particle      physics and AstroTurf, gnats, the Colonel's chicken, non-alcoholic beer,      FEMA and hammertoes, varicose veins and pinworms, splinters--now strictly      speaking, splinters should not qualify, but, I don't know, I just kinda      threw it in there because life's tough enough and then you gotta worry      about splinters--restless leg syndrome--Why not?--hammerhead sharks--for      crazy design--floods and plagues and earwigs, poison sumac--whatever that      is--Arctic cold fronts, torture and genocide, Super Bowl halftime,      herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and AIDS, nightmares, cramps and vomit,      Republicans, bedbugs and Democrats, and--Wouldn't you know?--no unicorns.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: Brian McConnachie lives by design not far from New York City.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL (Host): This is NPR, National Public Radio.
Commentator Brian McConnachie muses on the many things that seem to fly in the face of a theory of intelligent design. His list includes: head lice, ticks, mole rats, vultures, walruses, typhoons, migraines, earthquakes and tornadoes.