New Oxygen research; abundance and Cambrian (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, October 01, 2016, 12:14 (2975 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: And if humans are the perfect solution to the problem of the meaning of the existence of life, whose problem was it in the first place? God's? Does this mean that when he designed every innovation and natural wonder just for the sake of complexity, complexity itself became a problem, and humans were the perfect solution because….because…?-DAVID: Humans have the brain power to manage the Earth, solve problems, like stopping an asteroid from striking the Earth; curing viral diseases, etc.-True. So God designed the weaverbird's nest and the pararasitic fly and the monarch's lifestyle for the sake of complexity, or to balance nature so that life could keep going till humans arrived, because he had a problem, which was: what is the meaning of the existence of life? And the perfect solution to his problem was humans who could solve the problems he created in the first place.-dhw: Here's a theistic alternative to this befuddling scenario. […]
The non-theistic alternative starts with chance creating life...-DAVID: I don't accept chance.-I know. But perhaps at least you can accept the POSSIBILITY of the theistic alternative (i.e. God gave organisms the means of survival and possible improvement etc.) that I offered you to the incredibly befuddling scenario above.