Moved Another step towards answering the question of life's origins - religion

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

That's a brilliant picture of god launching asteroids, but where did he buy his overalls?

Day 0: The Lord created Walmart and saw that it was good.

 

[Swammerdami]

I think Leibniz's view is interesting (and it segues into Tegmark's view). God created "the best possible universe." A universe with much beauty but WITHOUT cancer or evil would have been incompatible with some mathematical constraints.

I think we are on a journey towards the best of all possible worlds. And that's a better possible world than one where no journey ever took place.

Could God make a better possible world without us in it? Sure. But why?

Thanks for the reply, Lion IRC. I've snipped your comments for brevity, but they all seemed reasonable (and IMO not incompatible with Leibniz' view).