What Exactly IS Intelligence? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell @, Sunday, August 29, 2010, 01:17 (4961 days ago) @ romansh


> But you completely missed (or at least did not address) my point. That apparently non intelligent, non conscious, sans free will stuff combines together to form objects that have consciousness, free will and are apparently intelligence? Now you may have a theistic explanation for this? -Inorganic matter is some of the foodstuff for living beings. We humans have free will and consciousness. We can absorb the inorganic and use it for energy production or other uses. Potassium Iodide is very useful to make thyroid hormone. If God made life, there is a theistic explanation for you.
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> I think I am conscious all the time as well, but it's just that I'm not so sure. Is starting a sentence with "I know" agnostic?-Cute. I'm agnostic only in the exact form of God, my term for the universal intelligence in everything.
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> > I am an agnostic theist by free will conclusions: I cannot fully grasp the concept of God as the universal intelligence I believe in. I have chosen to conclude that He is both within and without the universe as a First Cause, but I have no Greek in my background, and am just now sneaking a peek at Plato and Aristotle.
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> I find it difficult to reconcile "I can never know" with "But I'll believe anyway".-Why not, if you have concluded as I have that I will follow Mortimer J. Adler, and accept that the science I know brings me to 'beyond a reasonable doubt'of His existence..


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