@farmerman,
Your concept of "harm" and of "fucked up" are anthropomorphic, learned in childhood, and unrelated to the mysteries of eternal time and infinity. Thus your ideas on an intelligent designer suffer from a disconnect deriving from solipsism.
In eternal time and infinite space the BB is less than the striking of a match. Infinitely less really.
You seem to me to be positing a finite universe and expressing the arrogance of mankind which is found in Christian, Humanist and Atheist philosophies. A denial of our organic inheritance and, if I understand the mystics, our inorganic inheritance as well.
Jesus compared this world to a lightning flash and thus invented modern science. In the world in which Jesus lived that was a serious heresy. A capital offence in Ancient Greece. Which is why their mathematics exhausted itself with Euclid and doomed them to defeat.
Whether our mathematics is exhausted is not a question I am qualified to answer. Quantum theory suggests it is because we cannot separate at the atomic level the observer from the observed. Just as an organism that lives in the dark cannot be seen by us in its natural state and if we shine a light on it, of any sort, it likely feels as we do when we come out of the dark into the blinding sunlight. The ones shown on TV all have a bad headache. And that's lousy PR from the organism's point of view.
Or something like that.
Was the Higgs Boson found simply because it was being looked for and the kit was designed in order to find it and have a good party going when the photo-ops chaps had departed?
I have seen scientists at close quarters. They really are much like everybody else except that they tend to have individualised quirks which don't matter too much.
