Why did we happen to get such an efficient reproductive design?
Whatever does "efficient" mean to you?
"Man" adapts, people don't. Suffering individuals by the million have died before they could reproduce. According to human values, this is not neutral, but is, shall we say, sad. The losers in the survival lottery did not go gently into that good night but raged raged against the dying of the light.
I don't call that efficiency. "Efficiency" is a human word, though, so let's see if it applies.
Effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost.
The "production" in this system is, for example, we.
The "cost" in this system is all those who over eons didn't make it when our ancestors did.
It's not an efficient system, it's painful trial and painful error. Where did trial and error ever get called efficient?
Such a system would be seen as so hideous if instituted by "design" that its designer would have to be acknowledged as a monster of cruelty beyond mere human imagination.
The adjective "efficient" has a positive ring to it. How can you apply it to a system in which dozens of baby birds or baby bunnies are created for every one that survives the predators' jaws to create the next generation for the next mass predatory slaughter?
It's not a positive system, and it's not a negative system, it's just the system. If it's here, its ancestors didn't die screaming too soon to perpetuate its DNA.
Intelligent design theory is a pathetic last gasp try. It's a thigh-slapper imo; and also: if it were the case, then it wouldn't be merely "the" system, it would be the evil system. The fact that this nightmare of cruel waste and inefficiency wasn't designed by a conscious will is all that makes it not evil. |
