Hercules and Noah, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Argument from Design

Part of an ongoing conversation. The beginnings of it are here (http://www.scifiwright.com/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-the-world/ ) and here (http://www.scifiwright.com/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-whats-wrong-with-the-world/) And here (http://www.scifiwright.com/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-whats-wrong-with-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-48427 )

Flamingphonebook (not his real name) and I are discussing the sickness of modern philosophy by means of the conceit of a dialog between Diogenes and an...