An Inconvenient Tooth
I've had a one of those damn wisdom teeth causing me some grief lately. What a pain. And what nonsense.
It's my view that evolution has generally done an excellent job in developing stuff that 'just works' and eases out stuff that just doesn't. But when it comes to human teeth 'design', evolution gets a clear 'D-' from me a least. The wisdom teeth in particular, what a joke.
Really, why can't our teeth do what sharks' teeth do? You know, bite through anything and, if you lose a tooth, well hey - grow a new one...all part of a days work! No, no...ours have to chip, get crooked, acquire 'cavaties' and 'decay', we need fillings and crowns or get them removed entirely, and blah, blah, blah.. And even if you do happen to be genetically blessed with a strong and straight set of teeth, and even if you have taken care of them all your life, you've still got a good chance that those bastard wisdoms are going to randomly stir into action and cause mysery. Bah!
I've been brought up to believe widom teeth are artifacts of our evolutionary process. Or could it be, as some are arguing, that the wisdom tooth is in fact an 'inconvenient tooth', that it is clear evidence of intelligent design and not a vestigal organ? (I didn't realise teeth were organs?...)
If wisdom teeth are the product of an 'intelligent designer', I have to ask - what the hell was he (or she) smoking when they were at the drawing board?