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Nipples on boy 'cos God wants it that way. And something about engine blocks.
With her succinct post, titled, "Just wondering...", the redoubtable Feòrag ask:

"...how do intelligent design advocates explain male nipples?"

Well, here's how... (by a ID type called 'quintilis') with bad metaphors about car engines (of course!):
"But a little refresher course on embryonic development together with a basic understanding of the manufacturing strategies employed by known intelligent designers reveals that nipples on men is an excellent way to argue FOR Intelligent Design.

Every embryo starts its development as a female by default, which means every embryo is equipped with nipples from the start, whether male or female. Then, at the right time during development, and if the egg was fertilized by a sperm carrying the Y chromosome, the development changes direction and groups of cells that would have become ovaries, for example, instead become testicles, etc. But in that case, the nipples remain simply because they're already there. Males have nipples because they were females FIRST."

(CatNote - and how exactly does that admitted fact of foetal development prove 'God made man in his image'? Because surprise fucking surprise, Mr. ID is xtian)

"Believe it or not, this has an astounding analogy with the manufacture of automotive engine blocks. Engine blocks are cast from aluminum or iron and a common feature of these castings--called a "boss"--provides a way to mount the engine and attach ancillary components to the block later on; things like alternators, power steering pumps, AC compressors. etc. A "boss" is simply a protrusion in the casting that is suitably reinforced so that other components can be fastened to the casting.

On any given car you are likely to find blank bosses cast into the engine block which would appear to serve no purpose. That is, no ancillary components of any kind are bolted to them. Often you'll discover those unused bosses are there for optional accessories which that particular car did not come equipped with… air conditioning, for example. The engineers who designed the casting designed a single casting that is equipped with every boss it will need for the broad range of applications it was intended to fit, knowing full well that in many applications, the bosses would be unused. The engineers knew it was a waste of resources to cast a different block for each application and they also knew that the unused bosses wouldn't create any kind of functional disadvantage.

Design and manufacturing strategies like these are economical, elegant and efficient, and are the products of intelligent designers. It turns out we find evidence of very similar design strategies in the human body, nipples on men is just one example. Once again, an argument which was offered to challenge ID turns out to support it in a very profound way."

Found, by the way, on a site called overwhelmingevidence.com... feel free to go there and be spurned for your freaky use of logic and other evil stuff.

I can't wait to hear his explanation for knees, the epiglottis and the old "playground built next to the waste dump" problem. If they're examples of Design, it weren't that intelligent. Or, as Saint Bill of the Hicks preached, God was stoned when he made us.