DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Mister Agenda]

The question is why is there food on this planet for the 7.8 million different species of conscious life? I understand that it is needed to sustain life. I am asking why it exists on our planet at all? Are you claiming food and herbs used as medicine and what we derive our medicines from are just here because we are lucky?

There are compounds that could be used as food by earthly life on planets all over the galaxy as far as we can see. Organic molecules that could be converted by bacteria are not in short supply. There's plenty more just in this solar system. If the planet were otherwise habitable, you could introduce bacteria, and they would have plenty to eat. And then other organisms could eat the bacteria, and so on. Earth is unique in our solar system for bearing life (unless Mars or Europa turn out to surprise us); but there are billions of billions of planets in the galaxy, and earth is far from the only terrestrial planet the right size in the 'goldilocks zone' of a star system. It's possible we're unique in our galaxy in having a technology-using civilization, but it's far less likely that earth is unique in having any life at all.

We have medicinal plants for the same reason we have poisonous plants. They evolved to survive, and we are smart enough to use the variations that have adaptations we can put to our use and avoid the variations that harm us. We've spent millennia finding out what plants help us and what plants hurt us, too bad there was no intelligence to protect us from being poisoned.

Logical fallacy. Strawman argument. The question is not how but why. The options are that either you think we just got lucky to have a planet full of delicious, nutritious, energy providing food for 8.7 million different species of life as well as being lucky by having healing herbs and plants to derive medicines from OR you think it's clear that higher intelligence was involved. There are no other options.

A strawman argument is one in which your argument is misrepresented in order to make it easier to defeat. I was responding to your question, not an argument. The strawman fallacy does not apply. The 'how' is the 'why'. Life will explore every available niche that it is able to because that is the nature of the evolutionary process. We evolved to be able to eat the food that is available because we would have gone extinct if we hadn't. It would be bizarre if out of all the plants in the world, none of them had medicinal properties. If there were only medicinal non-food plants or only poisonous non-food plants, that might be an indication of a designer. A mix is what would be expected if there is no one directing the evolutionary process, that it wasn't all designed for our betterment or detriment.

What was the process by which you think that intelligence you're convinced of came to be?

Higher Intelligence/God always has been and always will be just like our true selves/souls.

What is the reason the intelligence you're talking about exists? It's a 'why' question, you like those, right?