As a software engineer, I'm amazed about the human body and brain. Non-software developers think that software works like magic, like a word processor or operating system or web or phones, somehow software is this spongy stuff that is soft and it works. They have no idea of the complexity, of the difficulty of creating it. Likewise they have no idea how miraculous the brain works or the body works, it just works.
Every year I work on software, my absolute astonishment at the working of a single biological cell, let alone a whole animal, gets deeper. To me software is not magic, I know roughly how it works, at least on certain levels of the stack. But biology???
Now I think about it, this is a powerful argument about god - a god or a committee of gods cannot possibly be smart enough to program an Adam from scratch.
Evolution over billions of years is somehow necessary to arrive at such a solution.
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