Sunday, August 17, 2008

Destructive Design I

We always wonder why we are the way we are. Why we are a social animal and not lone hunters! Why we domesticate the lesser animals and have no history of being domesticated. Why we have to work so hard to earn a living. All we do is, depend our whole childhood on somebody else: unable to look after ourself, clinging to somebody: unable to move around by ourself, get fed by somebody: unable to feed our self...and so on. We grow up and work hard to prove our self again and again. Then when we think that we are ready to face the world, we find that there isn't much time left. Now we are grown-ups. The responsible ones! We start on our new found path of piling up wealth. Wealth that may do a lot of good later in life. Or we thought so! But most likely all this will come to an end when we find that we are after all mortals. Weak bones, weak senses, weak voice and a burdened soul. That's what will be left at the end?
There are lots of takers for the Intelligent Design. Doesn't everything look planned? Designed for a specific purpose, with a specific function. The Trees, soil, water, air . Its so simple a system. Zero maintenance! So efficient that it has to be a designed one.
Maybe, The ID theory explains a lot. But still it does not answer the very first question. Why? For what reason? May be for glorification of a Kind? May be for a battle in the distant future? May be we all are parts of some Inter-Galactic Experiment? May be reasons is actually spiritual? Or may be there is simply no reason at all! Who can tell!? The last one sounds scary!
Even though the real question is not how, but why, the "how" part of it might let us understand the "why " part. Time is going to show.

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