Isn't it amazing?

Question

The complexity of the universe and of us...
The DNA in our bodies that is the microscopic code to uniqueness from our parents and gives uniqueness to our children is over 75 miles long, and keeps working to grow, replace cells...
The earth stays in an orbit that allows us to live comfortably, and is not too far or too close to the sun.
That the ecosystem on Earth sustains life by having plants and animals that feed us throughout the world and are naturally watered throughout the world by water being brought to them in rain... that trees recycle harmful gases into life-sustaining ones...
That our bodies have the ability to see around us, hear sounds and understand language, enjoy the touch of another person and the taste of our food...
That we have the capacity to reason, choose our direction freely, use our skills to make a living and share ourselves with others in romantic love and in friendships...
God's image...the good things... kindness, generosity, patience, wisdom, gratitude...

God is amazing and so great - he is with us and the evidence of the Creator is all around us if we have eyes to see...

"Dr." Kemp, please read the answers from "arewethe" below.

Answer 1

This is all amazing. If there is a creation (which there obviously is) then there had to be a Creator. God is awesome. His ways are above our ways and His thoughts are above our thoughts. Father, our Heavenly Father, knows best.

Answer 2

One could expect that a perfect designer would have done a better job in designing the human body which actually shows a number of areas where things which actually evolved haphazardly in piecemeal fashion have their drawbacks. Humans are prone to cataracts, diabetes, epilepsy, etc... all in part due to what would be considered very inefficient design if there were a designer behind it. The earth and the universe in general could have been designed in much more stable ways more beneficial to life and its continuence. As it is radical changes in the environment have led to mass extinctions. Our own planet will die someday as the source of life our sun dies.

This argument also fails to take into account it merely seems fine tuned for us because we evolved and adapted to fit the environment we have. Naturalistic methods are more reasonable explanations to me for the good and bad things we experience in the natural world and emotions.

Answer 3

Things are amazing, but "amazing" doesn't prove that there is a god. The sense of the numinous does not prove that there is a god.

While I'm not an atheist, I certainly know that the fact that some things are remarkable is not "evidence".

Romantic notions of God, belief, respect, honor, awe .... these things are fine and good. They are simply not evidence.

Answer 4

1.) The complete human genome is only about 2 meters long.

2.) If the Earth HAD been too close or too far away for life to be possible, we never would have noticed it because (duh!) life wouldn't have formed here. Go look up "anthropic principle", before you embarass yourself further.

3.) It wasn't always that way -- life managed on Earth just fine in an anaerobic environment for the first seven hundred fifty MILLION years of its history. Aerobic respiration is just a more efficient means of obtaining energy, which is why that particular mutation has stuck with us.

4.) Human senses are actually INCREDIBLY limited when you consider the frequencies of sound we're incapable of perceiving, the frequencies of the EM spectrum we're blind to (IR, UV, gamma rays, radio waves, etc.)

Best if you refrain from talking any further about scientific matters until you know what you're talking about...

Answer 5

"how easy it is to give undue credit to a force that doesn't exist, and take away some of man's greatest achievements."

Oh really? The earth staying in it's orbit is one of man's greatest achievements? The ecosystem on Earth sustains life is one of man's greatest achievements? The ability of our bodies, the capacity to reason, goodness, kindess, generosity ... is any of this man's greatest achievement?

I can't believe that answerer would try to credit man with any of this lol

But to answer your question, yeah, it's all pretty amazing, isn't it?

Answer 6

Yeah, sure is.

It's also amazing how easy it is to give undue credit to a force that doesn't exist, and take away some of man's greatest achievements.

EDIT: Were your ignorance not so vastly personified by your belief in God, you would have understood that I meant man's greatest achievement is it's multi-million year struggle to become the most intelligent and advanced life on this planet and at the top of the food chain.
If you'd like another attempt at being clever, though, I'd gladly give you one. As a human, I like to be kind and understanding to beings of lesser intelligence.

EDIT 2: Oh? I suppose you think that you're terribly clever, don't you?

"That our bodies have the ability to see around us, hear sounds and understand language, enjoy the touch of another person and the taste of our food...
That we have the capacity to reason, choose our direction freely, use our skills to make a living and share ourselves with others in romantic love and in friendships..."

A direct quote from the poster which clearly states attributes that humans posses that no other animal on planet Earth does. Since when was the capacity to reason NOT considered intelligence? Since when was free-will, not subconsciously centered around a family unit, not intelligence? Since when was the ability to pick and choose a partner based on romance and friendship not intelligence?

So, the fact that humans have multiple languages that anyone has the ability to learn, which the above poster stated, is NOT intelligence? It just happened, right? So, I suppose a bear has the ability to vocally communicate with a rabbit, to where the two understand each other? I think not.

Try again if you will, but this is an argument that you, as a fool, cannot win.

Answer 7

Yes, it is amazing what 3 billion years of evolution can come up with. You what? You think that God did it? Are you mad? Stephen Hawking has proved that even if there was a God, he would be unemployed because he is not needed. Your God is probably sitting in a downtown bar, counting his pennies and waiting for his crack dealer to arrive. If he's out of bed yet, that is...

Answer 8

It's amazing how much this looks more like a soapbox rant than a question.

Answer 9

praise Isis!
or Odin!
or Gaia!
or Jupiter!
or Amteratsu!
or Coyote!
or Danaan!
or...

Answer 10

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