(January 6, 2015 at 8:34 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 6, 2015 at 8:19 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Human intellect creates evolutionary systems, we know this to be a fact and we have plenty of observations of such. We have 0, zilch, nada... not even one iota of an observation of an evolutionary system coming into existence sans human intellect.
Therefore, it is most rational to assume that the evolutionary system that led to human intellects was created by human intellects.... oh wait...
Intellect is a faculty which humans possess but there is no strong reason to believe it is exclusive to humans. We've observed but a tiny fraction of reality so we should have little confidence that human intellect is the only intellect which exists in reality as your argument suggest.
On the otherhand if evolutionary systems on this planet can exist sans intellect we should observe them coming into existence on this planet sans intellect. We don't. We have we have explored and observed this planet in great detail an it appears that evolutionary systems on this planet can only come into existence with the help of intellect.
What evolutionary systems do you suppose would come into existence?
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
