(April 6, 2016 at 9:46 pm)AAA Wrote: Yes I exaggerated your point on purpose, but I think it is essentially what you are doing. The design is pretty much as good as it can get. Some enzymes are actually kinetically perfect, meaning they catabolize reactions as fast as they encounter substrates. There are mechanisms to prevent cancer. I suspect that the reason that genetic diseases occur (i.e. they are not all fixed by DNA repair enzymes) is because having excessive mechanisms to avoid DNA damage would eventually become too energetically costly to the cell. In other words, there is probably a threshold where it would require too much energy (which would decrease the organism's quality of life) in order to manufacture enzymes to prevent all genetic disorders (which also decrease the organism's quality of life).
In other words, things are optimally designed. You have constraints because improving one aspect impairs the function of another. An easy example to grasp is axon diameter. The larger the axon, the faster the signal. Why not have all axons be 20 cm wide? Because it would cause crowding which would impair the functioning of neighboring cells. Does that make sense?
Who put you in the position of rating the universe's functionality? The design is as good as it can get compared to what?
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