(January 3, 2015 at 12:24 am)bennyboy Wrote:(January 3, 2015 at 12:17 am)Heywood Wrote: The reason I believe biological evolution requires an intellect is because I observe that every other evolutionary system requires intellect.Then you don't understand evolution. Evolution doesn't even require life-- it only requires complex interactions over time, with some mechanism for persisting change.
Life isn't a requirement for evolution and I never said it was. You are making a straw man argument. Do you understand evolution? Evolution is a process that operates on a system and a system requires components. Sometimes the component is intellect(as in the case of memetic evolution). When intellect is not a component of the system then the system is found to be designed. This has been the case in every evolutionary system I have looked at in which I privy to the details of its origination.
Now after making these observations, why should I make a special case for the system which produced me and believe that somehow it is different and special and did not require either an intellect to design it or to be a component of it?