[boomboomsubban]

This isn't proof of a plan, life does anything to live and reproduce because life without those qualities would not be sustainable. Those traits could be accidental though. The plan also isn't consistent when you step back, everything from planets to the universe do not seem to be following this plan.

[meric]

Nature produce plans - nature produced you and you have plans...And if you have plans it's not too much of a stretch to say other living things have plans too, and their degree of planning varies depending on their level consciousness, memory and intelligence. The detail of planning is a continuum between non-life, virus, microbes, plants, animals, and humans. The intention in planning, however, is mostly constant.

[boomboomsubban]

Or both nature and me produce no plans, our actions are the result of some set of variables that have led to this point. This isn't proof.

And you're still focusing on too narrow of a spectrum, you can't even be sure that life must follow these rules just that it has in the one example we have.

[meric]

Too true - in this life it's good to be not too sure of anything because often we are wrong about everything. In the end it doesn't really matter to our everyday lives if you or I believe one way or the other...

[boomboomsubban]

Believe is the key word here. This is impossible or nearly impossible to prove, so you can believe whatever idea you want. It just isn't science.

My personal beliefs are similar but I do expand it to the cosmic stage. I can't answer "why is there something rather than nothing?" But as soon as something exists, either through luck or some plan it does everything it can to ensure it doesn't go back to nothing.