“Germany’s World Cup Triumph a Victory for Intelligent Design"

Germany’s Mario Götze scored the only goal in the World Cup final. Image courtesy of Danilo Borges/Portal da Copa.




Joel Kontinen

Writing in The Guardian, Barney Ronay suggests that Germany’s success in the World Cup was due to intelligent design:

“Victory here was always likely to be presented as a triumph of that frictionless German system, and indeed it makes complete sense that Germany should win the World Cup. This is the most perfectly calibrated, most relentlessly first-world system for producing high-class footballers yet devised, a piece of intelligent design that has now flowered to its logical end point.”

Exactly. One does not win the World Cup by resorting to haphazard Darwinian processes.

Source:

Ronay, Barney. 2014. Germany’s World Cup triumph a victory for intelligent design. The Guardian (14 July).