10th December 2005, 11:34 AM
Perhaps, but again, is all this complicated stuff a sign of intelligence or merely the way it works? The only way to tell is to compare the cosmos to some OTHER thing, some OTHER method of operating that would not show intelligence in it's design.
It's how archeologists can determine if something is man-made, knowledge of what isn't man-made. So, here's the puzzle as I present it: what model of the universe showing a lack of intelligent design do you compare our universe to in order to judge that all the intricacies of our reality had to be designed?
It's how archeologists can determine if something is man-made, knowledge of what isn't man-made. So, here's the puzzle as I present it: what model of the universe showing a lack of intelligent design do you compare our universe to in order to judge that all the intricacies of our reality had to be designed?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)