Theories of Haphazard Design

It never ceases to amaze me that proponents of Intelligent Design tout the rigor of their methodology, yet refuse to further characterize that intelligent design. Thankfully, Haphazard scholars have taken that next step. Yet even within the Haphazard community, theories differ as to why the design was so haphazard.

A list of possibilities:

*The Designer was drunk.

*The Designer was a sadistic psychopath.

*It was the Designer's last day at work.

*The Designer was an egomaniac who thought He understood His users' requirements better than they did.

*The Designer tried too hard to be All Things for all people and allowed scope creep to overburden the product with defective features.

*The Designer was a control freak who accepted no input from His team, and who made sure that colleagues who knew better than He were banished to a hot stuffy basement.

*The Designer mismanaged the budget and had to cut corners at the end of the project.

*The Designer was just an intern.

*The Designer was a consultant.

*The Designer lied about His qualifications when he applied for the job.

*The Designer got the job because He sucked up to the boss.

*The whole design process was outsourced to cheap offshore labor.

*There was no single Designer. What you see is clearly the result of Design by Committee.

*The Designer was a spoiled child (thanks RH) and the universe is just a model He has long since abandoned in a chest full of broken toys.