Then you have no reason to suppose that a hypothetical God could have created a more perfect human existence.
Why couldn't I? I said if there was some all knowing god it wouldn't mean they couldn't. Does god have to be good? Does he have to be neutral? Evil? Does he care or is he selfish? Is he like a child wielding the power we envision god having? Does god even exist? I'm saying there is so much we dont know we really can't say either way. We are compromised do only understanding the connection of synapses that tell us the reality around us. Even that could be misleading.
There is no evidence that convinces me that God exists. Even he does, then he cannot be supernatural, but merely the creator of life as we know it and maybe portions of the world we live in. If God is wise and loving, then it wouldn't really matter; he would set life or its preconditions in motion and then allow it to act according to its nature, without interference.
You have only one possible rational standard of value: Life; specifically: your life. There is no other mode of conscious existence that could have any meaningful value to you. If, somehow, you could trade what you are for some other existence where you could be conscious, but without any needs or dangers, you would be cheated. You would cease to exit as a person and all the things that you value would lose their meaning. It would be like living an eternity in total depression; not something you would expect from a worthy God.
Of course I can imagine a more intelligent, longer lived, animal than Man as well as one with greater and more numerous types of perception, but who's to say that that isn't Man's evolutionary destiny and that this isn't a hypothetical God's plan?
Thats not it I'm saying you can't possibly understand the existence outside of yours. It doesnt mean you have to be an animal with a long life span or better qualities to survival. It means you can't comprehend what it would be like to be in the shoes of some other existence. A plant? A cell? What is existence and life really? What is reality? Think outside the box and consider that you really know nothing. Our whole life could be a facade.
It's not, but if it were, then it's a truly great one, if you take the effort to both live it and appreciate it.
Man is a work in progress
Really? You know this how? Life as we know is just existence in progress yet it always recedes into nothing. Maybe god just views us as cable tv. Who the fuck knows really?
The record of evolution of life and, more recently, of human progress and civilization is nothing less than staggering in its beauty and greatness. Who cares if there's a creator watching. Whatever existence is and however long it lasts, just enjoy it, while you can.
A perfect and loving God would no doubt, not only create the kind of Man whose pleasure and happiness derives from the exercise of his mental and physical faculties for survival, procreation as well as discovering the form of morality that is proper to his nature, but create a Man that could become his own perfecter, becoming the master of his own evolution.
Are you talking about a perfect species? Whats the perfect existence? We thrive off of the happy chemical releases from our brain. Synapses telling us what we see and feel. Everything from the cellular level to the possibilities of the unknown. Saying without a doubt that god, the big bang or anything else created life is ignorant imo. as well as saying that this existence is the best that could be experienced.
I judge what I see by my own values. If these values are proper, then they are inherent to my nature. It is impossible for someone to rationally hold any other values than what his nature requires. By my standard of value, this is the best possible universe. No other standard can have meaning for me.
Life is an end in itself. The purpose and reward of life is in the process of living itself. You may plan for the future, but never forget to live in the moment.
Yea you live in the moment but this moment is insignificant like the ant in your backyard. Can you imagine ceasing to exist? those memories and moments don't matter cuz they dont exist anymore... You are nothing. Nowhere with no memories. Like it never happened. Never effecting the reality around you. No remniscing. No emotions. Nothingness as time continues never ending.
While still living, we can care about what happens to others after we die, but, yes, once we die, nothing matters to us anymore. That's why there's no reason to worry about it and all the more reason to savor life while we still have it.