You don't see a dog with a thick lower jaw! It is thin! While the upper one extends, beautifully accommodating the nose, the eyes. And the thin jaw is the reason, the dog is able to pick up food from the ground.
Its hind legs are flexible enough to reach even its face, and itch and unsettle the parasites before they turn gluttons. It wasn't given a separate 'itcher' in its design. Imagine how that would look. A limb of sorts hanging from don't know where just to itch. It would be poor, un-thoughtful design.
On the other hand, the poor cow may be not be able to do so, but it's got its loose flappy tail, capped with a mop of hair, that can solve some of those uncomfortable problems. The same concept of tail, but modified suitably to suit that creature's habits and habitat. Clever!
At the same time, the same concept of jaws, but the pelican has a wide accommodating lower jaw.
What flawless design! Every need is taken care of, for the habitat the creature was given. All aspects of the design coming together beautifully, most efficiently to form the whole creature. Not a part unnecessary, not a hanging loose end.
You go deeper in the design, from the tangible physical aspects, it is the same. Pain, for instance! We may hate it, we may think it is unnecessary! But, most necessary. It points out where something fishy is going on, it forces us to take care of it, to mend it. Else, we would just be plain careless and damage ourselves to death.
And if we take just our planet's example, millions and millions of creatures, all designed to fit into the larger design of our symbiotic existence. I mean, each aspect of one creature's design would balance or complement another design aspect of another creature's. And the permutation and combinations of these would probably run into trillions and trillions of design fixes to keep the planet's life design running.
And these are the tangible design elements. They all happen in, let's call it, in the womb of energy and time and gravity and god knows what not.
We now know them, of course, by experiencing them. But even thinking of the concepts of time and space and pain and emotions and intelligence and probably a billion other things, are sheer genius to even be thought of.
Can anyone think of a completely, fundamentally new concept such as these. Like, something we have never seen, heard, imagined. And then get it working!
Let us for instance, imagine you were to build the universe from scratch. There is just nothing, and you have to build it from scratch. You have never known something like a time, or something like energy, or intelligence. There is just nothing, And you have to invent it. Now imagine conceptualising something like Sound, let alone an entity like Time. (I don't even know what it is, entity or element or fuck knows what!) I mean, inventing not ears or receivers of sound but the concept of sound itself.
Where would you begin, where would you end, and to what end would your creation be!
Supposing, you somehow figured that and begin with somehow inventing gravity, and with something called as attraction, you decide to make objects turn around each other just to put things in automation. But you made the planets square. And then you figure it is not working and make them something else. Then you will have to worry about what material to use in making the planet, how will they come and a million other things just at the conceptual and design level. The sheer trial and error to get something called life working would probably take trillions of years. (But if you also invented time then would these trillion years matter? Ok, let me not go there and turn insane.)
So, it would be indescribably tough; no, not tough. Impossible, actually. Because we are just not equipped to create something we have not experienced! Because we are creations ourselves! We are only equipped to experience it.
Where would you begin, where would you end, and to what end would your creation be!
Supposing, you somehow figured that and begin with somehow inventing gravity, and with something called as attraction, you decide to make objects turn around each other just to put things in automation. But you made the planets square. And then you figure it is not working and make them something else. Then you will have to worry about what material to use in making the planet, how will they come and a million other things just at the conceptual and design level. The sheer trial and error to get something called life working would probably take trillions of years. (But if you also invented time then would these trillion years matter? Ok, let me not go there and turn insane.)
So, it would be indescribably tough; no, not tough. Impossible, actually. Because we are just not equipped to create something we have not experienced! Because we are creations ourselves! We are only equipped to experience it.
So, in the context of this creation and our design, what could really be our purpose in life? To make money? Career? War? Fight for God? And a hundred other silly things? (Notice how the numbers have come from trillions to just a hundred. That's how minuscule we are!) I think not. And if we were to find answers in our own design, like how a cat's teeth and physiology would suggest it would hunt and eat, our design could suggest many things. But from an ultimate purpose perspective, to me it seems our only purpose in life is, to experience life. (The life that created us and not the life we created. What we have created is a joke.)
Also, probably, try to understand it here and there, but marvel at it for sure. I don't think any other creature is designed to marvel. All, of course, part of the experience.
Also, probably, try to understand it here and there, but marvel at it for sure. I don't think any other creature is designed to marvel. All, of course, part of the experience.
Before I end, one more design observation. If you look at it physiologically, all creatures around us seem to be forward bound. Only trees and humans seem to be upward bound. Is there something there? Maybe. The possibilities are in trillions!
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