Natural Order and Science

[Alex K]

Quoting Lee Strobel.  What a buffoon.  You must be desperate.  Strobel is a nutcase and hardly qualified.

Who cares about the qualification of Strobel, concentrate on the meaning of his statement.

"Meesa no understandy evolutions"

But more seriously, it is easy to imagine (and to construct!) systems which self-organize in a complex fashion that after a few iterations cannot be "understood" by human intellect any more than the entirety of how dna organizes embryological development or how the brain creates consciousness. Take a blank deep neural network and let it learn something. It will become a highly complex thing which accomplishes a task by seemingly magical and to our minds hopelessly intractable steps. My point is that our level of understanding of how a complex self-organizing system accomplishes things is by no means a measure of how likely it could have arisen on its own dynamically (and I am talking not about the construction of the blank network which is obviously designed by humans in my example, but of the learning process which creates the actual complexity which is entirely driven by experiencing the environment.