Why is the universe not perfect?

Answer 1

because are humans in it........

Answer 2

Delirium tremens: If the universe was perfect you'd only see too well that every house is the same. A long row of houses that are like boxes, painted brown or pink. Same windows. The grass is same - green. Ladies wearing skirts will come out the door out of each house followed by a child. They'll all wave good-bye. And all those children would walk perfectly to school. Then the men will come out, kiss their wives good-bye. All wearing a black suit with tie, sunglasses and a briefcase in hand. Open their cars and drive off at the same time to the same place. Etc etc...

Ugh! That's when I come to senses and realize how much I love my life. I walk out the door and everyone is doing something different. Mowing the lawn, going for a walk, driving to work or school, getting groceries, smiling, greeting each other or fighting. Different talents, ways of expressing. Someone just died while I typed this. A new life is born... right about NOW! Love God and love people, what more is there? It's life, if we refuse to grow then it'll swallow you up. Try to be who you want to be and see that the world will change around you. Oh words of wisdom, don't suit me at all :)

No one is perfect, how can the universe be so? And in complete darkness we're all the same...

Stay safe. - Maryam

Answer 3

Why does matter outnumber anti-matter? Why is there an irreversible trend from order to disorder? Why does it seem that the edicts of Murphy's Law permeate our lives?

The simple answer is that the laws of the universe conform to the all pervasive 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. To ask why, implies a pre-ordained plan or divine action behind the 2nd Law. Could it be a random event or is there a supernatural explanation? I tend to think there is no supernatural explanation, just because the answer is unknown....that would be CAVE MAN logic. I venture to say the Big Bang set things on an imperfect course in the beginning, prior to that and what caused the Big Bang is unkown.

Answer 4

Perfection is a myth as it is something to be strived for but never attained. The universe is full of powers and reactions that we will never fully understand. There are many influences that have been created to mankind and the universe reacts to these, mostly in a way that is eventually detrimental to our civilization. There is a balance to everything and when this balance is upset the universe will eventually react like a cleansing in order to attempt to bring this balance back around.

Answer 5

Perfection is much overrated. For process of any kind to be possible there must be imperfection, an energy differential to drive that process. To tend toward perfection is to be alive; to achieve it, to be dead. Why? Perfection creates stability and total stability means no change whatsoever. No process, see? Just look at the periodic table of the chemical elements. The halogens, elements like chlorine, fluorine and iodine have seven electrons in their outer shell. They are missing just one electron to fill their outer shell and make it "perfect." Therefore, in chemical reactions they tend to acquire electrons. Metals like sodium and potassium, on the other hand, have just one electron in their outer shell. Their tendency in chemical reactions is to shed this electron, leaving a "perfect" outer shell. So sodium and chlorine, for example, react with one another and produce table salt, sodium chloride, a stable molecule which has achieved a perfection of sorts. Chemical reactions such as this - - - - love bonding on the molecular scale - - - - make the world go around. Carbon has four electrons in its outer shell. It too seeks the perfection of eight. So its tendency in chemical rections is to share its four with other atoms that reciprocally share four with carbon. Thus again, perfection and stability are achieved and the world of organic chemicals, which makes life itself possible, created. Then there are the noble gases, elements like helium argon and neon. They all have full outer shells. This means they do not need to react with other elements to attain a full shell, and are therefore unreactive. They are the loners of the atomic world. They are already "perfect" and tend not to participate in chemical reactions. Are you beginning to get the picture? The world of perfection is one where nothing ever changes, no process takes place. Is that really the kind of world you want? The ancient Chinese created a microcosm of the universe they called I Ching, which translates as "The Classic of Changes," known also today as "The Book of Changes." For them the world was full of imperfections, and it was the balance achieved among these that made a truly perfect whole, one in which being and becoming could coexist and becoming would never cease. Their ideal was not static perfection but the process of perfecting.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/html/wiltrans/wilhelm_translation.html
http://www.amazon.com/Ching-Book-Changes-G-Jung/dp/069109750X

Answer 6

It's perfect by defenition. The universe is exactly what it is. It is in perfect balance and harmony. Even when it destroys something it continues to be the universe.

Answer 7

If it were perfect, it'd be boring. Conflict and drama drive progress and affect change, as well as provide entertainment for haters like myself.

This begs a similar question, however: without the existence of the imperfect, how would we judge perfection?

Think about THAT for a second.

Answer 8

because perfection sometimes could lead to bad things, yea i know alot of bad crap is happening right now, but i guess we just gotta suck it up and deal with it...maybe we get to learn from these things, and hopefully in the future the universe would be close to perfect

Answer 9

The univers IS perfect. If is the flawed perception of humanity that makes it seem otherwise through our lack of understanding, refuasal to understand, and ego driven need for control of what cannot or should not be controlled.

Answer 10

Why would it be?

It's not as though it were designed; it just is.

(People who blame people on the imperfection of the universe are ignoring the fact of all the suffering that isn't human-caused, but inherent in life itself, and physics, geology, etc.)

Answer 11

Because Satan, the devil, exists. God will eventually take away all of Satan's power and influence in the universe, but He has his own timing and will punish him when He is ready too. Also, God gives us humans free will, to choose God's way or Satan's way.