Examples of Persistent Vegetative Mistakes abound.  These are found in nature and in the human condition.  There are glaring examples: birds that                        cannot fly live in sub-Antarctic conditions while there are no such creatures in the Arctic.  This is curious but things like this happen frequently and there are far too many to be the result of intelligent design.  We also have the spectacle of people trying to live with dwindling space and resources. Intelligent design would have prevented the extinction of carnivorous creatures that appear to have been part of the plan to keep all creatures in balance.  That cute deer in your garden has not awakened you from your persistent state.

Other people in addition to Terry Schiavo, whose bodies are alive while their brains have ceased to function, live and are among us in great numbers. There are no fights to keep them alive for they manage quite nicely, thank you.  They, you see, are in the vast majority and they use a very small portion of their brains to function and appear to be “normal”.  They function by focusing on very tiny concepts, such as lust, luck, and faith and exist in a persistent vegetative state which is a mistake of global proportions.

Examples of these are the useless wars, depleted resources and perverting the distribution of wealth and lack of rigor in providing medical services to all and assuring fearless futures for the aged and the very young.

One of the most telling examples of persistent vegetative mistakes is the lie that goes unrecognized for the liar has attracted unthinking subjects who exist in persistent vegetative states that pass for civic responsibility.

Persistent Vegetative ness is found in schools where students sit but do not think; in court houses where punishment instead of reform and rehabilitation is the sole aim; in factories and corporate headquarters where profit is elevated to saintliness instead of service exchanged for fair prices; in the “street” where conventional wisdom reigns as anger instead of reasoning; in secret places openly known where planning to blow up innocents instead of thinking how to resolve endless strife and when intelligent design for the production of food for everyone replaces the despoliation of the very land on which too many humans now crowd out the native life which once filled it.

The persistent vegetative mistake sluggishly looks around and pronounces: this is good! – And lets it go at that.