Detecting design or intent in nature

[Jenny A]

Heywood,

You are forgetting a rather simple problem with your sample. All of the intelligently designed evolutionary systems you propose as examples are conscious attempts to copy natural evolution. It's a little like looking at numerous paintings and models of the Niagara Falls and concluding that Niagara Falls must be designed because all of the copies are. If you eliminate evolutionary systems not inspired by natural evolution, you won't have any designed systems at all.

I won't have any evolutionary systems except memetic ones.....and those require intellect. If evolutionary systems can exist without the need of intellects we should see them coming into existence all the time. We see them coming into existence all the time now but that is only because they are the products of intellects.

Why don't we see evolutionary systems come into existence sans intellect? I asked this over and over and over......and I get the sound of crickets.

Why is that?