Unintelligent design (recurrent laryngeal nerve)

I appreciate that you agree that the route the RLN takes has not been shown to have any purpose, but Granny Magda is not alone if he was dubious of your conclusion that "since our knowledge of biology is far from complete, a function will be identified for it".Is it not possible that because of the mechanics of evolution (bottom up rather than top down) there might be many purposeless forms? Or, is the entire universe the "mother-of-all-conspiracy-theories", where everything has a purpose and nothing is accidental?

I find it astonishing that you would try to claim that anyone is arguing from a position devoid of evidence when you have stated: We can call the RLN "bad design", and we do so based on the evidence that the long detour serves no purpose and actually poses a risk, but what should really be said is that it is "not designed". Evolution works bottom up, not top down. I'm not qualified to discuss what is known about the evolutionary history of the RLN's ridiculous detour, but I see no particular logic in jumping to the conclusion that it DOES serve some as yet unknown purpose.