>>533274
Anthropic principle. We don't have anything to compare it with. Yes, I agree that life is quite miraculous and bewildering, but the fine-tuning perspective is not proof by any means. We simply wouldn't exist otherwise. Certain conditions lead to certain things. Just because we are here doesn't necessarily (and this is the important part, since that would be the point of truth) mean we were meant to be here.
Accident implies mishandling, a mistake. Natural forces work their way beyond our meaning. They exist beyond the reigns of our consciousness, it does not strike me as particularly odd that they would exist beyond the comprehension or necessity of consciousness altogether. Simply mechanical reactions. Perhaps the universe is simply a brute fact beyond which our notions of causality cannot penetrate - unsafisfying and in a way anti-intellectual, but no more than God who goes beyond human logic and comprehension, the fact that he has consciousness and motivation of a sort just makes him more intuitively palatable.
>>533640
Id like to see some well-examined/documented Eucharist miracles. Padre Pio is intriguing and mysterious but unfortunately not compelling enough, especially since something being medically inexplicable to some experts or to medical science of a certain period doesn't mean it won't be in the future - this is what a lot of Nobel prizes are for, after all. If does lend him credibility, but only as an individual case, as a person and as a phenomena. I would say it makes his case for sainthood more worthy if you already hold to the Catholic worldview, for instance, but from outside of it the facts surrounding him are not enough to endorse the Catholic interpretation.
Fatima disappoints me - at least the way it is hyped up as some kind of clincher. In fact it seems almost as if God were trying to leave as much room for doubt as possible. I've read a book on the subject by a Catholic historian. The accounts of the sun miracle are kind of shoddy. Fr. De Marcho for instance attributes a quote to a professor at De Coimbra who doesn't exist. Lots of witnesses didn't see anything. Only the two girls claimed to hear Mary, not the boy, oddly - though at the same time the strength of their conviction in the face of persecution and disease, if true, is impressive. I am skeptical of the claims about the town mayor threatening to torture them, though I don't know enough about how Portuguese provincial secular mayors would have acted back then. It is hard to rely on human testimony since it is often so flawed, especially in groups and where people have the opportunity to talk with each other and pervert their memories - police always make sure to prevent their key witnesses from talking with each other after an event. The predictions of Mary as told by Sister Lucia are apparently prophetic, but unfortunately this is impossible to verify as she only wrote them down in the 1950s, after such things like the wars and the revolution in Russia had occurred. The idea that the Third Secret refers to the attempted assassination of JP2 is patently unconvincing hence the conspiracy theories.
>>533722
Humans are social animals so not all need to act the same and in fact this would probably be maladaptive. Not all wolves are alpha male chads. Also dumb shit happens and evolution doesn't necessarily lead to perfection, just fitness. Consider the fact that there are species of insects and animals where the males ignore the fact that the females have viable genitals and just pierce their skin and impregnate them directly and other retarded shit. Things like evolutionary "arms race" between male and female of a single species.
Also animals don't act like animals. A penguin doesn't act like a pig. A dog doesn't act like a lion. A platypus doesn't act like a kangaroo. Not even all animals of a single species act like each other. Apes often have different social structures, some go solo others do shit like roam around in packs of just males or packs of one male and lots of females. Humans are super intelligent and have more capacity for variation and expansion, i.e. emergent behaviour. Lots of our political and economic systems start from the same roots and get more complex because we can communicate complex ideas and thus we can do more and change more shit. Birds can teach each other novel behaviour.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-scientific-explanation-of-in-corrupt-bodies-of-Catholic-Saints-Is-it-just-a-hoax