Becoming an angry atheist

[Thumpalumpacus]

...you are assuming that there is intelligence behind natural order because what order we see created here on Earth is the product of human intelligence ... hence, anthropic fallacy.

Your critique assumes that something other than intelligence is ultimately responsible for natural order. Formal and final causes are just as involved in the creation of galaxies as everything else.

No. My critique assumes that a reasonable argument is not circular.

.Now, if you want to argue that the laws of physics themselves require an intelligence in order to operate, then I'd like to see your proposed mechanism for an immaterial being to affect material existence.

And here I'm the one accused of begging the question! You ask for a mechanism because you already assume a mechanistic universe devoid of formal and final causes.

I'm not begging the question; the operation of the physical laws is an observed phenomenon resulting from the ways matter interacts. I'm perfectly willing to entertain any hypothesis you put forward in order to support your broader point that an immaterial being can affect material changes; that was my request. Your reasoning, particularly concerning final cause, is where you come a-cropper. Assuming purpose in the material structure of the Universe assigns intent to its operation; but nowhere do you demonstrate the intentional actor.

Additionally, I'm not stating that the Universe is devoid of a formal cause. But your assertion that it has an immaterial final cause is unsupported, just as it was in Aquinas's day.