Intelligent design: could we do better?

[Akincana Krishna dasa]

Wait, but nature is smarter than any human.... Humans can't create the simplest living thing. Flowers aren't just "complex." They are works of art, they are beautiful. The workings of nature may be blind. Still, they are brilliant beyond human estimation.

Nature is a dumb, mechanical process. Being pretty or complex doesn't change that.

A car can be complex and beautiful, too, but that doesn't mean a car is smart.

Your analogy doesn't fit. If there's a beautiful and complex car, the car itself may be dumb. But how did the car get made? Some smart people engineered and built a car.

Maybe nature is a "dumb, mechanical process." No one can prove conclusively what it is, nor describe every aspect of its "dumb, mechanical" processes. But even assuming that that's true, the "dumb, mechanical process" of nature regularly creates things, like biological organisms, in such a way that it has thus-far baffled modern science. Modern science can't create a flower.

So why can't you respect that the processes that did create the flowers is a lot smarter than modern science?

Further, can you answer where human intelligence comes from? I assume your answer, again, will be "dumb, natural processes."