Cofty,
Our world may not be the "best of worlds", as Leibniz has put it, but it's the best of the feasable worlds to produce intelligent life as we know it. I wonder if a planet without moving tectonic plates (and the consequent earthquakes and tsunamis) would be able to produce and sustain life as we know it, especially intelligent life such as ours. Perhaps that's the acceptable trade-off for life itself to exist. There's no absolute perfection except perhaps in the very person of God. "Perfection", in the relative sense, is something being optimally adequate to its purpose or function. In this sense, our world is adequate for producing and sustaining the life, even the intelligent life we find in it, therefore, "perfect". If you can produce me a world where material intelligent life came to existence, and where tectonic plates don't cause earthquaques and tsunamis and havoc and destruction, perhaps I'll be willing to revise my position.
Eden
- Cofty