(December 24, 2016 at 1:37 pm)AAA Wrote: It's not an assertion that intelligence is the only known cause, that is true. Nobody knows of an adequate alternative, and intelligence is repeatedly observed to be adequate.
Personally I think that the cause of life is a non-sentient process, and that there's nothing particularly special about what we happen to be -- humans are one possible result of a chain of countless processes, but not necessarily the best result or even an important one.
If you do assume an intelligent agent you just create the same problem at an earlier stage. Who {or more likely, what} created the creator?