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[MrRoboto75]

Not one "miserable pile of secrets"?  I am disappointed.

[Loud Whispers]

Not one "miserable pile of secrets"?  I am disappointed.

Well I thought it was best to keep that post secret

[MrRoboto75]

Not one "miserable pile of secrets"?  I am disappointed.

Well I thought it was best to keep that post secret

[MaxTheFox]

My mind is built from an entirely different wood, shape and paint to yours guys.

I honestly don't understand why this question doesn't seem natural to you.

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

[Scoops Novel]

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

Man has extensively shaped man, for a start. People have encouraged all kinds of things out of humanity beyond the necessities of evolution.

[Horizon]

We were created to assert dominance over others by t-posing.

[MaxTheFox]

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

Man has extensively shaped man, for a start. People have encouraged all kinds of things out of humanity beyond the necessities of evolution.

But unless you want to bring religion into this (and I am wearing my secular hat for the purposes of this conversation), humans are still not "made" for anything except the necessities evolution. That does not mean humans are not allowed (by what?) to do things that are evolutionary neutral or detrimental.

[Horizon]

Simply put we are made cause we propagate our species..Y'know...Through sex.

[King Zultan]

We were not made we are a mistake of nature!

[Horizon]

We were not made we are a mistake of nature!

A failed experiment.

[anewaname]

"Sir, our experiment on Planet 41 is getting out of control. Risk Assessment is saying there it would be highly unstabilizing to our society if they successfully access our galactic internet. They suggest we terminate the project."

[scriver]

What is a herring for?

It's what's dinner!

I almost missed this but yes, clearly, herring is for pickling

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

Man has extensively shaped man, for a start. People have encouraged all kinds of things out of humanity beyond the necessities of evolution.

If we count the time we've existed relative to the beings we evolved from then Man has been more extensivler shaped by the fore-being beings than Man-beings

[Quarque]

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

I would say it's a little more nuanced. What you are is partly determined by nurture and that part could be said to be "designed" if we interpret the word loosely.
So I think the most sensible answer is that if you want to know what a particular human was designed for, you should ask his parents (and to a lesser degree, friends, teachers, etc).

In the future man may become able to genetically engineer the next generation and at that point, man would be designed in a more literal sense.

Pets are bred in a way so far diverged from natural evolution that you could call them "designed" already.

[Scoops Novel]

People are made to be made. In every sense.

[NRDL]

Because if you actually know anything about biology, it doesn't make any sense as a question.

I would say it's a little more nuanced. What you are is partly determined by nurture and that part could be said to be "designed" if we interpret the word loosely.
So I think the most sensible answer is that if you want to know what a particular human was designed for, you should ask his parents (and to a lesser degree, friends, teachers, etc).

In the future man may become able to genetically engineer the next generation and at that point, man would be designed in a more literal sense.

Pets are bred in a way so far diverged from natural evolution that you could call them "designed" already.

Going by this, man was "designed" by the vagaries of chance and selective pressures in the environment to:

- survive by using cooperation and communication in large numbers
- Alter the environment so as to suit the needs of the group
- Use our relatively large brain to treat practical problems of survival as things that are solvable, and not just reacted to. Allowing for the development of technology

As opposed to other species which are "designed" to survive by virtue of outbreeding stuff that kills them, being difficult to find/kill, being able to kill almost anything else in their specific environs.