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Well, people aren't the only beings with intelligence. And to be accurate, intelligence describes a capability of a material being or biological entity.
Anything else, Ken, besides a person or animal, or some biological entity that has intelligence?
Well, people aren't the only beings with intelligence. And to be accurate, intelligence describes a capability of a material being or biological entity.
Anything else, Ken, besides a person or animal, or some biological entity that has intelligence?
No; nothing else comes to mind.
RickD wrote
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".
What do you think of what I said in the other thread - that if someone's brain works well we say they're intelligent, or they have intelligence? Intelligence is an abstract noun, isn't it? However, it definitely seems that it took intelligence to design all the "machines' that are living things (I think I got that from the other thread ) - even a biological cell is in itself a machine.
Better to circle back to "information" rather than "intelligence".
Kenny's answer is I think typical to someone who believes in evolution based upon everything else. It amounts to an "evolution of the gaps", but perhaps this can give Kenny some insight into why people might assume God for certain other things they can't prove either.
And, I can understand Kenny's "guess it'd be a result of evolution" statement. I mean if the intelligence we're familiar with is predicated upon physical beings, and many believe physical life arose via evolution, then why not? Not everything needs to be proven to reasonable satisfaction. And, his answer is just as good to him and many others who already believe in evolution alone, as-is assuming God created intelligence is to those who already believe in God.
Information in the natural order however, does imply intelligence. This isn't an "intelligence" of the gap argument as I see it. Rather "information" being found in the natural order is a positive argument for a super-intelligence of sorts -- whether it is a Gaia view that the world is actually inherently conscious and so directing, or God as in Christianity and Judaism. DNA, for example, doesn't prove God, but the meaningful arrangement of adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T) does prove to me an intelligence exists -- whose identity we're unaware to (at least, without any kind of extra revelation).
"Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13)
) - even a biological cell is in itself a machine.
Ken, you're absolutely killing me! 