If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Sunday, January 02, 2011, 15:23 (5073 days ago) @ dhw


> 1) All life was geared to the production of humans, and we just don't know why dodos and dinosaurs etc. were essential prerequisites.
> 2) Natural disasters and diseases are essential factors in the production and survival of humans.
> 3) If humans don't heed the warnings or take the necessary precautions, it's their own fault when they are struck down by natural disasters and diseases.
> 4) God has an ultimate plan for humans, but we don't know what that plan is.-
> To go one step further, I wonder why you might prefer it to simpler theories that at least have the merit of not requiring any further explanation: (a) that the apparent randomness indicates that there is no God at all, or (b) that God's interest lies purely in creating life, with all its apparently random contingencies, and watching how the spectacle develops.-Jumping in, Tony's first 3 points fit my reasoning exactly. To create this 'goldylocks' planet required an evolultionary plan with all the disasters, thereby taking the third rock from the sun and making it habitable. We have giant brains to give ourselves warnings so we can avoid most of the disasters. The biological evolutionary plan is programmed for increasingly complex organisms, dashing off in all possible directions, until ideal forms appear. There are essays in recent years suggestiong that evolution is over with our arrival. As for point four,what God's plan should do next is beside the point. If his purpose was to create us, the plan is over.-As for simpler theories, your plan (b) is fine, but not watching the spectacle, perhaps guiding it, with planned codes in DNA set up beforehand.