(March 14, 2014 at 11:37 am)Heywood Wrote: Gravity is a independent force. Evolution happens within a system.
They are not analogous.
They are analogous in the sense one causes objects to behave in a certain manner. In fact, gravity creates the stars and the planets. The fact that one is dependent upon more factors than the other is irrelevant and does not allow you to insert intentional agency.
(March 14, 2014 at 11:37 am)Heywood Wrote: Can you demonstrate evolution which creates complexity that does not require an intentional agent? I can't. I look at evolutionary systems whose origins are known to me and they all require the existence an intellect.
Now you're just begging the question with an argument from incredulity.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell