(September 11, 2014 at 12:42 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: I'm curious what types of evidence would be necessary to influence your 100% certainty there is no intelligence to the design of reality? I mean, simply the fact that intelligent life exists seems to imply we are experiencing more than just random, chaotic matter flying around in space. But that's just my opinion...
You have exactly one data point for "intelligence" and that would be humanity. A species that can't feed its young, can't protect the only environment is has for survival, is constantly at war, is burning through finite resources at an unsustainable rate, and has armed itself to the point of being able to destroy its own civilization in a single day. We are a species of unending violence, ignorant enough to deny the the observations of our own eyes if it conflicts with our "religion" and quite willing to exterminate anyone who disagrees with us. We are arrogant, self-righteous, greedy, mean, and petty.
So your suggestion that there must be an intelligent designer somewhere because "we" are intelligent is pure hubris. Insisting that only a superior intelligence of some kind, a deity or designer, could explain our being in the cosmos is even more hubris. Indeed, one might just as easily infer that having creatures like humanity on the loose is a pretty good indication that there is no intelligent design behind the cosmos.
Anyway, for all you know this is exactly what happens with a complex enough concentration of biological chemical / electrical energy in a natural environment. At the heart of all religion / gods is this belief that "we" are "special" and so "something intelligent must be involved". In my opinion that is nothing but egomania.
