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To: tejek who wrote (252552)	9/24/2005 4:50:54 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571561

Re: Intelligent design’ faces first big court test Actually, it also faces a big logical/theological test: God or the supreme being as made out by the Jesus freaks can't be "intelligent".... "Intelligence" is a property/feature of "ignorant" creatures. Ignorance or lack of knowledge on one's environment coupled with one's ability to process new knowledge/data (pertaining to the "environment") makes up "intelligence"/"intelligent behavior". If you are --as God is purported to be-- omniscient, eternal, and immutable, you don't have to be "smart"! Your intellectual activity is rather a kind of autistic aloofness.... An omniscient being is not "intelligent" because it has nothing to compute, sort out, process, whatever.... There's no problem solving when you know the correct solution beforehand. Of course, from the perspective of benighted human beings, the whole scheme of things "looks" intelligent because, unlike God, we perceive the universe as a space-time phenomenon: we don't know what's next, what was before --we don't know what's just around the corner, both chronologically and topologically. Hence our relying on "intelligence". Gus