God as an engineer.
Here we sit on this chaotic orb spinning through space and going nowhere. Around us we see incredible variations and strange adaptations in the natural world.
It resembles nothing so much as chaos. Engineering teaches us that the best solution is simple, eloquent if you will. The earth shows no such simplicity and elegance of design.
But let us just take man. To many He is gods crowning achievement, the apex of all the life forms on earth. Is it possible that this is a created being that was created by an all powerful omniscient god? Could we be the work of a superior, but ungodlike engineer? To put is simply. Could this flatulating, sweating, urinating defecating foul breathed creature be the result of, if not godlike intelligence, at least some sort of intelligence?
The above surely implies that we are not the apex of the perfect machine. The effects of the operating system, if not the system itself, leaves a lot to be desired. If today someone applied for a patent on the human body it would surely be denied solely due to the amount of pollution it creates.
Let us go on the mechanics of the operation.
We walk upright. This is an inherently unstable position making us top heavy and the simple act of keeping us upright requires a lot of computing power that would better be used for something else.
While we have two hands, arms legs etc. one of each pair is inferior. The whole idea of handedness reeks of engineering stupidity or incompetence. There appears to be no reason for this except for the hated idea of imperfect evolution and chance.
What engineer would produce a machine that is required to be shut down, useless, for a full third of its existence?
What engineer would produce a machine that is so easily damaged with parts that cannot be replaced?
Why are we placed at the mercy of so many of earths inhabitants, from the smallest virus to the largest predators? Whatever success we have had against both has had less to do with the original design and more to do with getting around that design.
Then there is the whole drama of reproduction. What on earth were they thinking? A reproductive system that is not only disruptive to our lives but actually endangers us, females in particular.
And lastly the final indignity, we cannot even breed true. The system of reproduction allows errors, many many errors, in the form of birth defects (millions of them) and mutations that are overwhelmingly to our detriment rather than to our advantage. For good or bad, and they are mostly bad, they are random; nothing planned about it. We are left depending on the roll of the dice.
Sound like engineering, even bad engineering, to you? If this is the best God can do then the phrase God help us is as futile as it is false
Here we sit on this chaotic orb spinning through space and going nowhere. Around us we see incredible variations and strange adaptations in the natural world.
It resembles nothing so much as chaos. Engineering teaches us that the best solution is simple, eloquent if you will. The earth shows no such simplicity and elegance of design.
But let us just take man. To many He is gods crowning achievement, the apex of all the life forms on earth. Is it possible that this is a created being that was created by an all powerful omniscient god? Could we be the work of a superior, but ungodlike engineer? To put is simply. Could this flatulating, sweating, urinating defecating foul breathed creature be the result of, if not godlike intelligence, at least some sort of intelligence?
The above surely implies that we are not the apex of the perfect machine. The effects of the operating system, if not the system itself, leaves a lot to be desired. If today someone applied for a patent on the human body it would surely be denied solely due to the amount of pollution it creates.
Let us go on the mechanics of the operation.
We walk upright. This is an inherently unstable position making us top heavy and the simple act of keeping us upright requires a lot of computing power that would better be used for something else.
While we have two hands, arms legs etc. one of each pair is inferior. The whole idea of handedness reeks of engineering stupidity or incompetence. There appears to be no reason for this except for the hated idea of imperfect evolution and chance.
What engineer would produce a machine that is required to be shut down, useless, for a full third of its existence?
What engineer would produce a machine that is so easily damaged with parts that cannot be replaced?
Why are we placed at the mercy of so many of earths inhabitants, from the smallest virus to the largest predators? Whatever success we have had against both has had less to do with the original design and more to do with getting around that design.
Then there is the whole drama of reproduction. What on earth were they thinking? A reproductive system that is not only disruptive to our lives but actually endangers us, females in particular.
And lastly the final indignity, we cannot even breed true. The system of reproduction allows errors, many many errors, in the form of birth defects (millions of them) and mutations that are overwhelmingly to our detriment rather than to our advantage. For good or bad, and they are mostly bad, they are random; nothing planned about it. We are left depending on the roll of the dice.
Sound like engineering, even bad engineering, to you? If this is the best God can do then the phrase God help us is as futile as it is false
