Not unclear or impolite at all. I appreciate the thoughtful response. > What makes plastic something with a negative potential? The human perception of it (ba

Not unclear or impolite at all. I appreciate the thoughtful response. > What makes plastic something with a negative potential? The human perception of it (bad aesthetics and contamination of water being the most concerning). > I don't really see any advantage of introducing additional beings I'm not positing God as a being nor a question of what's advantageous. It's an admission that we can't explain everything and the hole is God-shaped (again, IMO). We can observe quite a bit and form hypotheses/conclusions, but we can't go produce a perfect copy of Earth—we don't know how. Our best solution to a "backup Earth" at this point is to terraform Mars which is just manipulating an existing reality we didn't create. My general point being: something of superior intelligence had to produce the reality we're living in (irrespective of the form that intelligence takes).