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What do you mean "reason nature had to make things so damn complicated"? Nature has reasons? And even if it did, why does this "reason" have to be simple? Does it even have be something humanly comprehensible or even observable?

Could an ant ever comprehend or even "see" a microwave oven?

Nature is what it is. We may only ever get glimpses. And a bias toward simplicity may be more a function of human limitation than some fundamental truth.



Of course nature has reasons. Natural selection is the prime example.

The reasoning doesn't have to be simple but there must be a pretty good explanation of why it is so complicated. Lets not forget that even Einstein thought that something must be wrong with quantum physics because it doesn't make sense.

Nature is what it is but that doesn't mean that we can't question what's happening and seek answers to every single aspect of life. That's the basis of science.




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