(January 13, 2015 at 4:30 am)robvalue Wrote: I also like the argument for unintelligent design. If we were designed, we were designed really, really poorly. And our environment, the universe, is almost entirely deadly to us.
I like to think of unintelligent design too. However I think here people are focusing much more on how many flaws there are in the universe than on the opposite, and man is that negative.
Someone said something about how the eye makes an image upside down and has a blind spot. Well how about the fact that it can see over a million versions of colour? It makes an inverted image but that is fixed by the brain.
So in cases, yes the universe is not perfect but the fact is despite all those flaws and deadliness- we're here and we're alive. And we are here because the Earth for the most part is not deadly (on land, our natural habitat). Despite the fact that the universe is so deadly-we made it. Life formed because one planet at exactly the right distance from the sun went from fiery to rocky to watery to icy to watery again hosting an abundance of species that were born, died out, some evolving into us. Maybe we'll evolve into something greater or just die out.
I think the flaw in my first post was my use of the phrase we were made to be born. When I said "we" I didn't mean humans. I meant life as a whole. But I understand what flaw you thought that was.
But I still don't think we're accidents . . . No sir!
