(April 4, 2014 at 11:47 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Also, you can rule out an intelligent designer, though maybe not a clumsy and highly-restrained one.. ya know, since the existence of emergence sits on a knife's edge as you point out. Presumably, an intelligent creator could have designed it however preferred but the way it apparently decided reflects a lot of pointless stupidity.
I don't see any pointless stupidity in emergent complexity. I think you are confused about what emergent complexity is. Can you give an example of the pointless stupidity you are thinking about?