(January 12, 2019 at 7:27 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(January 12, 2019 at 1:08 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Why do you need an infinite regress?
A is self-sufficient. You can go to B without moving backwards.
Isn't it obvious?
If you posit that intelligence requires some super intelligence prior to it, then that super intelligence also requires some super-super intelligence prior to it... and then a super-super-super intelligence... and so on and so forth.
If A is self-sufficient, then how is standard human intelligence not self-sufficient?
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If intelligence requires a regression of super intelligence, then I guess that kills the idea of a primordial soup that assumes non-intelligence to intelligence. If not, how would it have developed intelligence? It would've needed a superior source.
Anyway...
It was sufficient, but corrupted. Kinda like a computer program getting a virus. The program may have been fine, but when a virus alters its function, it can become dysfunctional. In other words, man made a choice to alter that sufficiency.
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Of course I think you know what happens next. They did it anyway.
It was sufficient based on a direct relationship with God.