(February 13, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Heywood Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 4:39 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: So you made up the definition and made up that it requires intellect?
Negative Mr Wizard.
I made up the definition and then observed that no such systems(which contain the elements of replication, heritable traits, change, and selection) has ever been observed coming into existence without intellect. I further observed that when ever we could observe such a system coming into existence it always required an intellect. I then concluded from my observations that it is likely that all such systems require intellect to come into existence.
If my conclusion is wrong, it should be easy to show it is wrong by presenting an example of such a system which is known not to have required intellect. Please present an observation which falsifies my argument.
I don't see how you came to the conclusion that those require intellect? Have you observed this intellect? Whos mind is it coming from? Have you observed this intellect actively guiding all change over every species at all times? If you could even begin to establish that such an intelligence exists them maybe we can talk about what requires it.