I'm not an engineer but that seems ludicrously wasteful
Just to expand on the idea of waste...
If the idea is that humans are special and unique in the universe, then there is even more waste. The universe is so incredibly vast with the observable part from earth being 93 billion light years in diameter, and the habitable part of our solar system is so tiny. What a waste...
I can come up with a few proposals that might offered in response to the objection to waste. Some of the arguments might not be considered acceptable by proponents of intelligent design like those at Discovery institute.
1. Perhaps there is no other way to make a universe other than to make it big and old and to allow life to evolve in it, even if that evolution is going to be directed. I cannot imagine that a proponent of special creation would find this option palatable. Fundies probably would also dislike the idea of limits on God.
2. Perhaps we aren't so special, and the Designer orders and guides life in other systems, and just didn't tell Moses about it. I cannot imagine many fundamentalists liking that.
3. The designer built all of the rest of that stuff to awe us and to provide indication of his power and glory. Maybe that might appeal to some ID proponents.
4. The universe is only 6000 years old, and every technique we currently use to measure ages of rocks, fossils, planets, stars, etc., and all methods of measuing distances to objects in the universe are each horribly and stupendously wrong. Despite the seeming goofiness of this answer it seems to be one that many people would accept.
5. The universe and time were created, with or without divive intervention via the big bang, and life evolved on earth and elsewhere via evolution. No need to explain waste because the waste has no purpose.
6. God works in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
I'm sure there are other possible explanations.
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