RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 15, 2015 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2015 at 4:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 15, 2015 at 4:57 am)Heywood Wrote: Intelligence is not human. Intelligence is intelligence.all your observations of it -are-. Your conclusion will have to concede, if you're still pretending to base it on observations, that it was human intelligence that created these systems, even the system that yielded human intelligence
...because that's the only intelligence you have observations of to make statements from.
Quote:Because evolutionary systems have only been observed coming into existence in the presence of intellect(s)human intellects - of course, this isn't true, I'm just trying to keep the deceit to a minimum. One of the more ironic twists, is that in the manner you';re likely using the word....intellect will always be present when observation is occurring......nub.
Quote: and since humans could not have been present when the evolutionary system which created us came into existence,bingo, your observations cannot be cast into that point in the past where you want them to be. I like how it's "presence" now..lol, guess what, presence is insufficient, your argument is DOA. Did you know that there are lightbulbs present when I take a shit? Guess that means that lightbulbs cause me to take a shit.
Quote: we can use the evolutionary system which created us to infer the existence of a non human intellect.trouble is that it doesn't require an intellect, no more so than your examples of evolutionary systems require intellect, mere presence is insufficient for operation, and your observations all involve human intellect, as does your concept of observation.
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