Don't you think the world is so perfect for us to live for there not to be a higher power?

Question

Think about our planet. Everything is perfect for life. Plants take in carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen. We breath that out and give plants carbon dioxide. There are fossil fuels which allow us to power vehicals. The world has many different places with different climates for different life to develop. Water alows us to live and it recycles it'self. I could just go on and on and on for hours. It seems almost impossible to me that everything just developed by chance and luck.

First, to the peoople here everything can be examplained by science. The way we live and how the earth and life on it developed might be explainable with science. What created the material for anything to form though? Why was only one planet (that we know of) able to develop life and have such a perfect order of things. That brings me to my second rebutle. Death is essential... It is part of the perfec t cycle I am talking about.

By the way, I never said anything about God, I just wonder how something so perfect for "life" could develop and why only one place withen a traveling distance.

I don't even get where you got the idea that I think things just appeared either. I don't think evolution happens, I know it does. I just think theres something behind everything.

Answer 1

You know that old saying "With a million monkeys typing on a typewriter, one is bound to write Shakespeare"? Well, someone has to be that monkey. If life never was, I don't think there would be anyone around to notice it, so of course it looks perfect. Life is simply a higher degree of order in our universe, and there are likely even higher degrees of order that are nothing like life. Space is extremely vast and it is important not to forget our limited perspective of that vastness when considering questions like this.

Answer 2

it's not as perfect as you think it is. it's a struggle which is ready to collapse at any time. plus take into account all the bad things that happen. i've seen a few, and believe me there's no perfection there. it's not that everything was created, it's that the elements in existence were just enough, with some serious evolution and adaptation and a whole lotta failures, for us to eke out an existence with for those who can mange it. those fossil fuels were probably some of the failures in the road that led to fragile little us.

besides there are an infinity of worlds out there. so many of them could have been possibilities, yet for most it just didn't work out. just because our planet hosts life does not mean it's the only one either. there could have been millions of other "us" situations, it's not a matter of luck, it's more like an inevitability in probabilities.

it's not a matter of a perfect world being ready made for us. it's more a matter of an imperfect world in which we have learned to survive. there is a huge difference.

Answer 3

How is it possible, when you look at the vastness of the universe; that this 'higher power' took an interest in our speck?
We are smaller than microbes to the eyes of the universe.
If your calling the universe a higher power, I would have to agree, but on the stipulation that this is all chance....
Out of all the possibilities in the universe, why wouldn't some planet have the perfect circumstances for our carbon-based life? With all the elements we know about on 'our' periodic table; what are the chances that life 'as we know it' cannot occur some place else?
If you look at computers, their memory chips are made of Silicon, which is one period lower on the periodic table under carbon.... Meaning it has one extra full set of electrons... Which means what you ask..... Well, it's exactly like carbon, but has one more full set of electrons.... We are carbon-based life forms....
Which you say is too perfect; that a higher power must have made all our surroundings and us. If you take Silicon into the same context, as ourselves.... We made computers... out of silicon.... They do complex processes just like we do....
So I pose the question to you.....
Would you say that this higher power - pre-programmed us to know how to do that? To create, (?) A silicon based type of organic substance, that functions similarly to how we do?
Are computers not evolving to the point of; us just initially programming them, and then having them run on their own, making their own decisions, based on set parameters? When new programs have come out that let the computers decide things, outside of the set parameters...for obtaining a perfect solution or answer....
How do you answer that? Did we not create computers? Which was a completely coincidental random occurrence.... Too perfect you say?
Who are we to say that earth is the perfect situation for life?
You mean perfect for life as "we know it", from our "human perspective."
Who are we (humans) to judge anything for that matter?
We are NOT the highest life forms, for sure. We cannot even comprehend the vastness of the universe, or even our own personal reality. We're not even talking on a community level here.
I think in today’s time people want to believe in a higher power, it takes away your responsibility for your own actions.
Everything was not just chance and luck when the earth and all it’s life forms were created…
There is a cause and effect relationship governing our world. Not completely chance. (How would you describe nature?) Everything in nature has cause and effect relationship.
I’m rambling now… but I hope you get my point…

Answer 4

The way nature developed doesn't have anything to do with chance or luck. Science, as the other users mentioned, is a very complex & intricate process yet, in my opinion, very clear & easy to make sense of.

I don't believe in god, science is a little too believable for me to think otherwise. The millions of creatures that roam our planet are trying to survive based on their surroundings and abilities. Plants recycle toxins because they've evolved that way. Animals use instincts because it's all they have--they cannot communicate or think cognitively the way we do. Water, actually, doesn't recycle itself and like our air, food, and capacity, we're running out of it.

I can understand your beliefs & appreciate them, I just don't share them.

Answer 5

Not to knock God. But what you consider chance and luck is the inherent drive for things to survive. The things that adapted best lived and bred. Things like fossil fuels easily explanable by science. Things like water and climates can be explained by the way chemicals, generally, look for stability.

Answer 6

Look in your Bible where Jesus says "consider the lilies of the field and the birds of the air." Those birds, Jesus says, are provided by God with their every need.

Jesus thus proved to us that he was grossly ignorant of basic ecological biology. Not a good sign if you're looking for an infallable god.

Fact is, birds of the air RARELY meet their basic needs. First, if you walk around and keep your eyes open in the next few weeks after a storm, you'll find a good number of shattered eggs or baby birds that were blown out of their nests. Most infants born in this world are synonymous with "lunch".

If the bird manages to survive through adulthood, each day of its life is a struggle. Their high metabolisms mean that they must feed nearly constantly. If you watch birds closely, they know little peace; even the smallest, least offensive looking wrens and chickadees are continually attacking one another over territory and food.

The bird-song that we find so musical? Translate it for meaning, and you'd understand that to the birds it's a signal that means "if you come into my space I will peck your eyes out or worse!" Unless it's "c'mere cutie let's make eggs."

It's fair to say that neither you nor I know what's possible or impossible to any reliable degree. I say sit back and wait for more evidence. In the meantime, you might keep studying your Bible but this time look for all the errors: rabbits don't chew cud even though Exodus says they do, just to get you started.

Answer 7

Everything IS perfect for life. That does not necessarily mean that a higher power created it. Think about this: if the universe WAS created by random occurences and Earth was generated out of colliding cosmic entities and life, against all odds, was created by sheer random chance, how much more precious is life?

Life is so precious if a creationist perspective is removed because it is so fragile.

Answer 8

Well, that is your opinion. I do not see any chance for a so called supreme being. What with all the death and destruction going on. No chance. Also, there is no proof or evidence of it. There is more and more proof for evolution every day.

Answer 9

Its not the world that is perfect for us, we are perfect for the world. The world existed before humans (and before life in general). We evolved and adapted to the world, so it looks now like it was made for us but its the other way around.

Answer 10

God exists and He created a great place for us. WE are the reasons it is turning to sh*t. He gave humans, and ONLY humans, a higher intelligence. He did so that we could be the keepers of the Earth and all the life within it. Look at how we've ruined it. This is why I hate people and their selfishness and ignorance. As if we have the right to extinct the entire planet just so we can drive cars that run on gasoline and use hairspray. The perfect Earth is perfectly f*cked because of people who think like Bush and other idiots like him, claiming global warming isn't an issue. That's insane. I feel guilty that we have failed so miserably.