(November 1, 2014 at 1:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote:Quote:But the intellect required to design the universe is so far off the scale of intelligence that we observe as to make such an intellect ridiculously improbable.
Oh, I don't know about that. If I threw 5 billion little colored microdots at a wall one might start to wonder about the impressive intellect they knew must be behind such a display - with all of the patterns and observed effects and predictable behaviors present on the canvass, the amount of information present. If no intellect is required in the first place, no great or superior intellect would be required if intellect -were- involved. If it can be achieved in a "dumb way" even a super-intellect could achieve it through "dumb means" - that this hypothetical creature may be "supersmart" or that there is a possibility of such a creature has no effect. Or, put another way - if the universe can be achieved thusly, why should we assume that we're looking at anything more than some superintellects micro-dots haphazardly thrown at a wall - no contribution from whatever intellect it may possess?
So you're suggesting, even if the xtian God was the creator, the universe as we know it may simply be the result of His explosive diarrhea? Doesn't seem all that praiseworthy.
