Challenging purpose

Do you believe everything has a cause? Do you believe some supernatural/unnatural entity has created reality as it is and created everything for a reason? Do you believe nothing really happens by chance, especially on a macro level?

Why are days 24 hours long? What meaning does 24 hours have that it wouldn’t have had if it were a 27 hour day? Science suggests that there’s evidence that during the development of the Earth-Moon relationship the “day” on Earth has gone from 4 hours to our present 24. It will change more in the future. But if god created and/or designed everything that exists as it exists today, a “day” could never have been anything but 24 hours (god’s thousand-year-days don’t count), and that number of hours must have been chosen for a reason? So what is it? What does the Bible or Koran say about the significance of a 24 hour day?

Why are there two sexes and different races? There are plenty of examples in nature of plants and creatures that can impregnate themselves and give birth without ever having sex. We are told that god’s primary intent in creating male and female was procreation. The holy books are less clear on the creation of racial groups. Maybe god the designer just thought humans looked better in a variety of colors and shapes. Yet just look at all the problems that stem from humans being differentiated as male and female, black and yellow, comely and homely. So much strife, bloodshed and death brought on by nothing beyond the fact that humans are different from one another. Any designer that strays from the simplest solution, that unnecessarily complicates the goal the designer is attempting to realize, that introduces harmful noise into the design, lessens efficiency. It’s inefficient, if the goals attributed to the gods are true, to have two sexes and all the other differences between humans. Sexual propagation is inefficient. Asexual reproduction accomplishes same goals as those attributed to the gods. As long as the designer remembers to also make humans immune to any disease or virus that could take advantage of such a degree of genetic uniformity. What goals of a god would be thwarted by a planet full of single sex, single race, indistinguishable in appearance and genetically identical human beings? Would any of that stop humans from filling the Earth with their children, having dominion over the planet or worshiping a god? The gods could have achieved their goals much more simply with a far greater assurance that those goals would be met and with far less damage to these beings they are said to love had they not created sexes, races, varieties of any kind in nature. One kind of bug, hoofed animal, fish, tree, bird or human would have done the job better than the current condition. If we’d never known any different condition we’d never know what might have been. That’s why the gods created science fiction writers and conspiracy theorists. I suggest there is no practical reason for variety in nature. If the gods delight in variety, why isn’t there a variety of real gods?

Why is there a moon, why are there stars? Most holy books have some sort of “Genesis” story (in the “catholic” sense), a tale of how the gods brought the universe into being. Since ancient man must have been aware of the moon and stars, even the most ancient of religions have stories about how these came to be. If everything exists for a reason, what’s the point of a moon and stars? Why even have other planets? Everything that seems important to the gods is happening solely on this planet. What purpose do the others serve? Surely god or a good designer doesn’t need a moon to create tides or maintain Earth’s orbit. What good do stars do, other than our own? If Earth was created solely to house humans and humans were the gods’ greatest creations, of what use are the stars to us? They don’t even provide enough light to do us any good. Why wasn’t all that mass used to create one massive planet, ours? Then I could easily believe that the Earth was created for us.