How can a human view themselves as so "perfect" that there must be a creator?

Question

Perception really plays into that analysis, doesn't it? I mean, wouldn't a fish look at us and say, "They can't even breathe under water!" And wouldn't a bird look at us and say, "They can't even fly!"

Is the human ego at the center of any perception that shows us in a "perfect" or "miraculous" light?

Looking forward to some diverse perspectives on this. Thanks in advance.

Peace

Linda J,
interesting point. You just presented another case of "perception-itis." I think society has actually improved in the last few hundred years.
Tomato, to-mah-to.

Jeff,
Thanks for the additional examples! I appreciate the thought you put into that, my friend. =)
...could you imagine if we could regenerate limbs and fire porcupine-like projectiles? We'd be awesome!

Answer 1

Have a star.

Wouldn't a chameleon say, "they can't even change skin color?"

wouldn't a turtle say, "they only live 80 years or so"

wouldn't a a fish also say, "they inhabit the land...which is such a small percentage of the planet. why not take the sea which is so vast?"

wouldn't a porcupine say, "they don't even have projectiles to fire."

wouldn't a starfish say, "they can't even regrown their amputated limbs?"

seems, we are only perfect because our our large overinflated egos.

Answer 2

A lot of people got this question all wrong. They are trying to prove that humans are indeed not perfect. But you are asking why humans think that thier perfect form means there is a creator not "are humans perfect".
The question itself has a flaw though. It assumes that humans rationalize that there must be a god because humans are perfect. How can you assume that that is what humans are basing this creator or no creator decision on? How can we know what perfect really is anyways?

I say there must be a god not because of how perfect humans are but how COMPLEX humans and the rest of nature is. Yes birds can fly and fish do breath underwater and humans are the only ones who rationalize. That is complex enough for me to think that it is not by chance. That it must have been created. I can't get on board with the idea that all this is simply chance and evolution. Yes a meteroite exploded and created plants and animals and living, thinking humans. My great great great .....great grandparents were monkeys...right? So in another quadrillion years fish will be thinking and talking and building a whole empire under the sea. Like litte mermaid! WOW. Disney was a visonary! So will we have different nations of fish and fish wars between nations that threaten the eco system and our way of life. And we will have to have ways to commmunicate and sign pacts with these fish so we can find a way to live together. You know as long as we stop eating the fish. My god what they start to figure out we might taste good to them?!! Then we'll have horror stories of the mighty fish people who ate all of ENGLAND! Holy crap!

Answer 3

Please study the brain for a significant period of time. How does consciousness arise? How and why is our brain so degenerate? How do we have even an organized visual concept of the world with over 31 specific areas, locations, receiving specific aspects of our visual world and no master program to bring them together. I know that many will suggest that we do it with re-entrant circuits but, they can not prove it. Why is our understanding of consciousness so different than any other animal that we have encountered to date? How do we have such plastic abilities with anatomical differences among brains? Why do identical twins have different antibodies to fight the same infection? Why are infants born with billions of neurons that get pruned? Why does a adolescent child have a neuronal groth of billions of nearurons prior to purbity only to have another pruning? This is then repeated around 17 to 19 years of age.

I am not suggesting that we are perfect but, we are extreemly complex and we do not understand ourselves to this date. Did this complexity arise from natural selection? Did it arise from natural selection and then get a gift? Were we created from scratch just as we are? I do not know but, I know enough to not rule out the possibility of God. Call it my hypothisis

Answer 4

The gap between the highest evolved primate to the human being is just too huge to be explainable by evolution.
And it is not that humans see themselves as so perfect but rather the inclination to even consider themselves on any moral scale at all. No other living creature does that.

Answer 5

The conclusion that there is a creator is not based on a human's view of themselves as perfect. How is my view that my automobile was built by Ford Motor Company influenced by my ego or perception of my perfection? It is rather influenced by the Ford logo on my car. Likewise, my conclusion that there is a God is based on His signatures on the Universe, mainly Life.

Answer 6

I absolutely agree with you! It's indeed all about one's perspective. Some will say that our bodies are perfect, but in my eyes they're not - we get sick, we feel pain, we die ...

Ego is exactly the cause of inventing God(s) if you ask me. We're afraid to embrace our mortality as something natural, as a natural cycle. Soothing mortal fears by believeing that an imaginery being will give us eternal life is also very selfish in my humble opinion.

See how imperfect we are? We're letting selfishness and fear take over us and we're capable of one of the biggest sins according to my lifebook - dellusion.
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Answer 7

I've always loved the argument of perfection. It has many glaring flaws that come to light under the scantest scrutiny.

(I had it used on me once, and almost laughed until I couldn't breathe. The person had the temerity to say that I "should not question God's idea of perfection. I know we're perfect because God created us." They didn't even see the circular logic.)

Answer 8

Apparently the great Creator wasn't thinking when he decided to make humans share a single passageway for eating and breathing. It's been responsible for literally millions of deaths by choking - especially among infants and children. Some perfection. LOL.

Answer 9

All living beings are perfect in their own way.
Birds have wings for a reason just like fish have gills.
If men had wings and gills, then they will no longer be men..they will be Fishbirdmen...yes?

Answer 10

My belief is that the Gods could not have created us in their images because the images are changable in a whim. My Goddess takes the shape that she needs/wants to accomplish her goals of the moment.

We are no more perfect than anything else, including the other level of "beings".