@Ace Dragon: It is a similar notion that those in other religions subscribe to. A God who is infallible created man who is fallible. In this respect you’re not only calling into question my own belief system, but the very God of almost every religion on the planet. How can God be perfect and without mistake if that which he created is imperfect and rife with mistake?
At any rate I can explain this because it is in the very nature of man’s purpose that he is fallible and therefore his creation was not imperfect, but perfect which is to say he was intended to be fallible. If man was intended to be fallible than that which created him made no mistake in his creation.
It is of my belief, and that of a great deal of others too, that everything in the ecosystem, in fact everything in the universe, was created to fill a specific purpose. Where the bee was created to pollinate flowers, among other things, and the worm was created to aerate the ground, among other things, the human being was created for another purpose.
Because the bee pollinates it is clear that the bee was intended for this purpose. Because the worm tunnels in the dirt it is clear that the worm was intended for this purpose and fill it well the worms do. Because the human learns, invents, explores and generally seeks knowledge it is clear that he was intended for this purpose.
However; the nature of a learning creature is that the creature itself must start out with little to no knowledge and then over the course of his life seek out and obtain more through various methods, not the least of which being trial and error. Because the creature starts out with so little knowledge, because the creature does not know literally everything he is destined to make a great many mistakes.
A learning creature must break a glass vase in order to learn that a glass vase can break. A learning creature must burn his hand in order to learn that fire is dangerous. A learning creature must starve in order to learn that he can starve. A learning creature must build a house on shoddy foundations in order to learn that such foundations are shoddy. A learning creature must build an empire on shoddy foundations in order to learn that such foundations are shoddy.
If a creature has been created for the purpose of learning and understanding said creature must be prone to mistake and fallibility. If there is a God and that God is infallible then it was his intent to create a fallible creature ergo no mistake was made in creating such a creature.
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to get back up.” -Batman Begins
Edit: @Blue Print Random: I believe the human race is similar, though certainly not exactly the same as the ant. Where the worker ant digs and this work benefits the whole the ant himself has no idea why he’s digging, that it benefits the whole, how it benefits the whole or why it benefits the whole. Nonetheless his very existence benefits the whole.
So too is the human race, individually so many look around them and see someone they do not understand and think this person does not deserve to exist because they lack the capability to understand exactly why this person needs to exist. This is a mistake in my opinion, just because one does not understand for what purpose they or another exist does not mean they or another are worthless, instead they are worth everything anyone else is and it is only that their purpose, their reason for being is beyond our realm of comprehension.
If a hard working fisherman looks to see a man on the beach doing little other than walking around quietly collecting sea shells and for days and months he sees this other man doing little other than collect sea shells he thinks to himself, what a lazy, no good, worthless drag on society. In reality there is a perfectly good reason this man was created to do little other than collect sea shells and the fisherman is simply not smart enough to understand what that reason is.
The ecosystem as a whole, how it works together and how it came to work together so well escapes us, it is beyond the realm of human understanding. The human ecosystem is not at all different. We reward only those we think we understand, but leave those we do not understand to wither and die.
What if we did the same for the ecosystem as a whole? What if we killed off all of the mosquito because we found them annoying? What if we killed off all the bees because their stings were painful? The flowers would soon die and so too would we.
