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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (23721)	5/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Exactly... pretty smart, eh??" What justifies the word "smart"?? If the Panda had a proper thumb rather than a minimalized improvisation of selection...that might be termed "smart". If 99.9% of all species had not gone EXTINCT...that might be considered "smart" as well. "Can't natural selection be driven by consciousness/awareness/intelligence???" It could be driven by a snowball. But there is no reason to posit either possibility. How intelligent would a creature be who failed in 99.9% of everything it lavished creative intent upon?? Where is any suggestion of such a creature? And if there is no suggested author of this "intelligence", then where is there a suggestion that awareness, reason, and will can exist apart from a brain and nervous system?? "One of the big 'problems' with a theory based on "random" evolution is the large 'gaps' in evolutionary branches yet to be 'filled in" Why do you consider that a problem? "So? Does extinction mean lack of intelligence??" If someone or something designed an entire species only to fail in perpetuating itself--well...it suggests low wattage or a ridiculous premise. "So? So does the sloth" Exactly. Hardly evidence that either were designed for any "reason" other than sleeping and dying and then becoming extinct. As such a "reason" seems idiotic on the face of it, it leads us to consider more rational explanations.