Intelligence (Origins)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 16, 2013, 14:16 (4059 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: For me, this represents a major argument against David's anthropocentric view of evolution. (For more details, do please read my response to him, 12 March at 12.29.) Of course one can and should ask where the genome's inventive "intelligence" sprang from, just as one can and should ask where God's inventive intelligence sprang from, but that takes us back to our three equally faith-dependent "first cause" hypotheses.-Since we agree there has to be a first cause, there must be a first cause for intelligent information. Only chance or design can do the creating of this information. A chance creation of information? From what? It is an oxymoron. Designing coherent information requires an intelligence. That is not an oxymoronic statement. Incoherent information? We are back to chance. By necessity an intelligent mind has always existed. Ask Aristotle.