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 first just take man. To many He is god’s 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 that cannot stand the smell of it's own body 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 it’s 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 earth’s 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.
But what about the overall scheme, the entire picture of life on this globe?
The entire structure is life against life, built on pain, slaughter, and death. One species living off another even including the plants that lacking mobility, spend their time trying to crowd out their competitors or deprive them of that which they need to survive, principally light and space.
Forget about the all loving god, love is not something built into this system. 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.
It, to me, is obvious that we are the way we are because earth is the way it is rather than vice versa. We try to accommodate ourselves to an earth that could not care less.
If we are in fact the product of a god or intelligence then the plea of ,”God help us”, is quite futile. Obviously there is no help to be had if this is the best that could be done.
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 first just take man. To many He is god’s 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 that cannot stand the smell of it's own body 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 it’s 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 earth’s 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.
But what about the overall scheme, the entire picture of life on this globe?
The entire structure is life against life, built on pain, slaughter, and death. One species living off another even including the plants that lacking mobility, spend their time trying to crowd out their competitors or deprive them of that which they need to survive, principally light and space.
Forget about the all loving god, love is not something built into this system. 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.
It, to me, is obvious that we are the way we are because earth is the way it is rather than vice versa. We try to accommodate ourselves to an earth that could not care less.
If we are in fact the product of a god or intelligence then the plea of ,”God help us”, is quite futile. Obviously there is no help to be had if this is the best that could be done.
