If sea cumbers are an example of intelligent design, then God – sorry, an unspecified supernatural intelligence that somehow doesn’t infringe on the First Amendment – needs to lay off the acid. Echinoderms are what you get when you give evolution the number 5 and half a billion years to piss around.
![Pseudocolochirus violaceus [CC-BY-2.0 Alex Lomas]](http://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Pseudocolochirus_violaceus.jpg "Pseudocolochirus violaceus [CC-BY-2.0 Alex Lomas]")
A sea apple (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
