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To: Neocon who wrote (975)	3/3/2002 4:50:49 PM
From: jcky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

< The intelligence is not an attribute of the thing, it is what shapes the development of the thing. > So let me follow you correctly. Intelligence isn't quite a characteristic of this thing but it (intelligence) shapes the development of it (this entity)? So is there a Higher Order of Intelligence to oversee the intelligent development of the Universe? And how many layers of this onion can we peel before we find nothing? I don't find the question of intelligence pertaining to design a non sequitur at all. If intelligence is not essential for the existence of life then why should there be intelligent design? In the cosmological time frame, intelligence is a rather new development on the evolutionary scale. Who's to say in another 5 million years that intelligence finds itself down an evolutionary dead end. And this is especially true if homo sapiens' ability to develop weapons of mass destruction continue to outpace their impetus to use them. You cite that it is a fallacy to read a pattern in the random juxtaposition of elements. But I don't find this a contradictory statement. If mathematical calculus can integrate an infinitesimal pathway to derive at a finite answer, I find it entirely plausible to arrive at an orderly process from underlying chaotic elements. In fact, quantum physics is based entirely upon probability and statistics. Playing with dice... as you would say.