Order vs. Randomness

[Mudhammam]

Yes, those things by themselves are not intelligent. However, when you begin to study and understand their orderly interactions and their relationship with everything else at a global scale, all such interactions over the course of time seem to be governed by an even more fundamentally intelligent, self-organizing system, which is consistent with the functioning of a mind.

No... their orderly interactions and relationship with everything else is perfectly explained by physics... and the physics of our universe just happen to be exactly as they are (possibly) because that's the nature of a flat universe with zero energy, produced by chance in a quantum vacuum, where there is no time and no space, no energy and no matter, or "nothing" as some call it... your claim is merely tautologous: It must be intelligent because it is intelligent.

If you think the cause of the Universe is intelligent, don't you think you've opened a far bigger can of worms? Doesn't that require far more explanation than the origin of the Universe, or even a quantum soup, or even nothing if THAT IS the ultimate "first cause"? And if you can't articulate what that is and see no way to do so in the future (whereas physics makes progress without appealing to intelligent causes), what good is it to postulate?

I'm content to just the say the origin of everything is this:

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And that's where science comes in!