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You've touched on the strong argument against "Intelligent Design" theory.
If the designer was so intelligent:
1. Why would he make our body susceptible to disease, infection, illness, birth defect and injury?
2. Why would he have parts of our body wear out (eyes, hearing, etc.) and also give our brain a lifespan that exceeds the lifespan of our body by at least 20-30 years?
3. Why would he make a planet for us where 90% of the surface area is completely uninhabitable?
4. And of the small area that is inhabitable, why would he subject it to earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, tornadoes, blizzards and floods?
5. Why does he require most species to be killed (and experience incredible amounts of pain while being killed) for food in order for other species to survive?
Overall, the designer did not demonstrate much intelligence and actually comes out looking cruel to the point of being downright psychotic.
Alert the media, it seems we agree on something, but I can field some of your questions.
As to number one, it is like the process of distillation. You start with that corn mash and it burns everything else off and you eventually wind up with the pure product you were looking for. Like refining gasoline or anything else, actually cracking petroleum is a fascinating process, they control temperature and pressure to get all kinds of thing, gasoline in not the only thing.
About number two, first of all many people get dementia in older age but then again many don't. But, we got seven billion people now, can you imagine the hell hole this world would be if people lived to be like 500 years old ?
On number three, that is how it is. The rest of the planet is what makes the livable parts livable. for example the oceans. The oceans supply most of the oxygen for us to breathe. There's two thirds of it, and we get about one third of what's left. Some is too swampy, some is desert. I don't see much purpose in the desert but it might have one that even experts have not discovered yet. Of course we could irrigate it with seawater and in time is would become arable, maybe it is like land in reserve.
Number four. There is no other way to maintain the environment. Ask California about an inversion layer. We burn shit and there has to be air current to blow that away. Plus if you know anything about climate and meteorology you now that these air current make MORE of the planet inhabitable, not less.
On number five, you mean like a lion eating a llama ? I am pretty sure the llama goes into shock. Humans do. When I got shot I only felt pain for a few seconds. But everything pretty much kills to survive. Even if you are a vegan, do those vegetable live and grow when you eat them ?
I know the answer to number five is inadequate, and perhaps there is no answer that is. But I tend toward the theory that it is the only way to make a world work. Even insects, some pollinate the plants. A few years ago they were worried about the bees. Mosquitos spread disease to thin the herd, because without predators most species' will over reproduce.
At seven billion, humans certainly have.
But anyway, I think it is only way the world can work. If you live to be 500 years old, well then you should not reach puberty and be able to reproduce until like age 400. If humans had litters of puppies like 12 of them, well PETA and the SPCA have to kill many of them every day. We have wars for that..
You made a good case. Life just happened. And if there is a god then that god is the universe and we are like cells of that body. That would mena that whatever is more than the sum of your parts would survive after your corporeal death. But people think they are going to see their Grandma and all that shit which is not true, IMO. When you lose your corporeal body you have no name, gender of family anymore. If there is any life after death maybe you do experience it but as a part of a superconcious or something like that. It might be great, and if you were a real motherfucker in life maybe it is not so great.
We are all going to find out.
T^T
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