(May 30, 2014 at 1:05 pm)Heywood Wrote: You agree that at some point, on earth, most lineages of life will be the result of intelligent design. If this is true of the earth, and it appears this will soon be the case, Why couldn't it be true of the universe itself?
For my money, I'd say that there's no reason that it couldn't be true of the Universe itself in that scenario. However, that's only the start of the journey, not the end. You can't just posit the possibility and then stop there as though you've made some scientific breakthrough and expect to be taken seriously without putting in the work to test the hypothesis. That's the part where creationists constantly and consistently fall down.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
