Honestly, a lot of this argument seems to stem from some kind of intelligent design theory. Personally, I think that's bullshit. I mean, I'm not going to categorize my intelligence as infinite but I can still see a lot of flaws to our design that I could fix in a second.
1) The universe isn't exactly hospitable to us. The overwhelming majority of it would kill us, instantly. Lack of oxygen, which our bodes are dependent on, would be a quick death. That doesn't even bring up what lack of air pressure, gravity or heat would do. Our bodies ar designed to work with those things and the majority of the universe doesn't have them (or at least it has them in such small amounts that they're worth ignoring). I mean, hell, if I were god, the least I could have done is make us breath hydrogen instead oxygen since that specific atom is a lot more common in the universe.
2) We breath from the same mouth we eat from. That's a damn good way to choke, ain't it? Clearly, an intelligent designer would have been able to get around that little snafu with a seperate hole to breath from.
3) We spend about a third of our lives unconscious. It's hard to be productive or defend ourselves while we're unconscious. Again, were I intelligently designing people, sleep wouldn't be quite so mandatory.
4) We're populating so fast that the world can't sustain us all. Clearly, either we weren't designed to understand this or the world wasn't designed to hold this many people. Either way, it's a failing of any designer.
5) All those viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites and other poisons...... yeah, we were designed to be killed by those things, sometimes very painfully. I can understand the need for death, but wouldn't it be nice if death from cancer or rabies were less painful and we had just a quick, painless death?
6) Even though the earth is supposedly designed to support us, we can't really live on the great majority of it. The poles are way too cold, the oceans don't work and even on the land, deserts and moutains aren't exactly hospitable to us. There's only really a pretty small sliver of the earth where we could have lived (at least up until the past 100 or so years worth of technology started changing some of that).
7) The end of our digestive tract is right next to our genitals. In case anybody didn't know this, putting an amusement park next to a sewage waste site is a bad idea.
8) Our noses, which tend to drip mucus, they're right over our mouths where we take in food. I can't be the only one who thinks that specific design idea is a little gross, can I?
And that's just scratching the surface. Clearly, any designer has fucked up enough that he doesn't get to call himself all-powerful.
1) The universe isn't exactly hospitable to us. The overwhelming majority of it would kill us, instantly. Lack of oxygen, which our bodes are dependent on, would be a quick death. That doesn't even bring up what lack of air pressure, gravity or heat would do. Our bodies ar designed to work with those things and the majority of the universe doesn't have them (or at least it has them in such small amounts that they're worth ignoring). I mean, hell, if I were god, the least I could have done is make us breath hydrogen instead oxygen since that specific atom is a lot more common in the universe.
2) We breath from the same mouth we eat from. That's a damn good way to choke, ain't it? Clearly, an intelligent designer would have been able to get around that little snafu with a seperate hole to breath from.
3) We spend about a third of our lives unconscious. It's hard to be productive or defend ourselves while we're unconscious. Again, were I intelligently designing people, sleep wouldn't be quite so mandatory.
4) We're populating so fast that the world can't sustain us all. Clearly, either we weren't designed to understand this or the world wasn't designed to hold this many people. Either way, it's a failing of any designer.
5) All those viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites and other poisons...... yeah, we were designed to be killed by those things, sometimes very painfully. I can understand the need for death, but wouldn't it be nice if death from cancer or rabies were less painful and we had just a quick, painless death?
6) Even though the earth is supposedly designed to support us, we can't really live on the great majority of it. The poles are way too cold, the oceans don't work and even on the land, deserts and moutains aren't exactly hospitable to us. There's only really a pretty small sliver of the earth where we could have lived (at least up until the past 100 or so years worth of technology started changing some of that).
7) The end of our digestive tract is right next to our genitals. In case anybody didn't know this, putting an amusement park next to a sewage waste site is a bad idea.
8) Our noses, which tend to drip mucus, they're right over our mouths where we take in food. I can't be the only one who thinks that specific design idea is a little gross, can I?
And that's just scratching the surface. Clearly, any designer has fucked up enough that he doesn't get to call himself all-powerful.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
