Possibly, but please use higher power, god usually means god in a biblical sense whereas what i'm talking about can be an unintelligent field of energy.
If such an unintelligent entity exists, how can it guide evolution and purposely create vestigial organs just to make it more convenience for us to discover evolution? you know being unintelligent and all? why didn't it tell us about evolution? or even better why didn't just create us?
I mean I'm sure creating us would be more timesaving than wasting billions of years orchestrating evolution?
Just that we rely a lot on chance in everything about evolution and many other theories. We call it randomness/chance. But the chances of complex systems like the human brain or the eye, the plants, the galaxies, stars, sun, etc happening through random chance are a bit too low and hard for me to believe on face value unless its all conclusively, 100% proven by science and accepted by all scientists.
Think about how many mutations have to happen correctly to form even the simplest of organs. I don't think that that kind of stuff can happen through sheer chance. There has to be either a pattern/explanation to it, such as the mutations being an adaption to the environment rather than being random, or some sort of higher power guiding it.
Plus also consider things like dinosaurs being wiped out by an asterioid without which mammals couldn't have evolved the way they did and humans may not have been able to survive and dominate the planet.
When you put together all those things such as:
1) Creation of the universe
2) Creation of earth with the environment necessary for life to function
3) The way life evolved, all the mutations which had to happen for the complex organs to have formed
4) The wiping out of dinosaurs as a result of which mammals survived and dominated the planet
5) The tremendous variety of life, the colors of a peacock's tail, the elegance of the way in which life spreads, sexual reproduction, etc, and the human female body itself Cheesy
6) And many other things I'm missing
I don't know about you, but when I think about all those things and all the events/mutations which needed to have happened for those things to occur, I'm inclined to keep my mind open to at least the possibility of there being a higher power which played a part in guiding some of the things that have happened.
And I do remain an agnostic, I don't believe in such a higher power, but I'm open to the possibility that it may exist.
I'm open to that possibility also. But statistically speaking, any entity you're imagining doesn't necessarily have a better likelihood to exists than divine Elvis does? For all you know we could be living in the matrix and the black suits are just fucking with us.
How can the slow process of random mutation and natural selection possibly cope with the exponential speed at which human beings are increasing their own powers and capacity?
Great point. But still they will probably look back at us as primitive in a millions years time. I mean we might have been created by a far more advanced celestial civilization as an experiment and "they" are going to shut the project off tomorrow. "They" can even be the ones who have created the whole universe.
P.S: this thread is getting mind-boggingly tedious.
Topic: Some questions about evolution