Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 22, 2013, 14:54 (4056 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: As I put it to Tony, if you can believe in an undesigned super-intelligence, why can't you believe in an undesigned lesser intelligence that has evolved? But I'm not inviting you to do so. It's only a hypothesis, and I'm still on my fence, looking for company!-Why not join Fred Hoyle in the intelligence thread, just posted? Your Monarchy recognized him as Sir Fred, the Astronomer Royal. Fred sees the intelligent design. And like you he understood that chance was not the way it happened. An "undesigned lesser intelligence" is a euphemism for chance. A molecule has as much chance of being intelligent in its own right as a block of salt, which has a nice crystaline design. That design is pretty but but offers no ideas beyond its rigid form.