Intelligent design: could we do better?

[Darkstar]

Maybe nature is a "dumb, mechanical process." No one can prove conclusively what it is, nor describe every aspect of its "dumb, mechanical" processes.

Prove it is dumb and natural, yes. Explain all of its aspects, not yet.

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?

Two problems: 1. Nature doesn't regularly create biological organiams unless you mean reproduction, but they aren't created from scratch. It took nature over a billion years just to produce a single-celled organism. Give us a little more time, you'll see...

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

Yeah... Now if you want to know where higher intelligence comes from, it goes something like this: After genetic evolution increased the intelligence of humans beyond a certain point, they became smart enough to begin learning independently of evolution. They learned new things, and they taught them to the next generation. Imagine if a child was raised in a forest with no contact from civilization, and was taught nothing but basic survival, not even language. Would not this person be as intelligent as a caveman? Look at all of the knowledge that can be accessed from google with a few clicks. Imagine how long it would take you to learn anything if you had to do original research into the subject rather than taking a class, if each individual had to re-invent calculus. It is the accumulation of knowledge over generations much more so than it is biological evolution that is responsible for our great advances.