(urth) The Key to the Universe

[James Wynn]

  On 8/13/2010 3:31 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> I don't have a problem with the universe ultimately being of 
> intelligent design, but I feel that people saying the intelligence 
> *had* to intervene over time instead of making the universe 
> self-building is presumptious. I also find it more in character for a 
> divinity who is supposed to have a personal relationship with every 
> intelligent being to devote Their interventions to the people rather 
> than the pile of rocks they live on.

As I understand the theory of Intelligent Design, it posits that some 
natural and biological phenomena/processes  are best understood and 
predicted if they are addressed with sciences such as engineering rather 
than natural selection. If I have understood it right, your perplexity 
is that you are applying metaphysical import to merely practical systems.

I mean, who knows what sort of things would interest an Intelligent 
Designer if such a person were located, and why would it matter? Even 
Richard Dawkins has accepted the concept of a personal Intelligent 
Designer as a non-problem so long as the designer were understood to be 
an alien race that developed according natural processes.

u+16b9
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