afdave
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| Quote | But what is intelligence? Does an intelligent thing necessarily have to have any or all of these qualities:
1) Desire, wants, will
2) Foresight
3) Memory
4) Awareness of itself
5) Creativity and originality
6) Sensory organs
7) Perceptions
8) Communications
Evolution has some of those qualities, memory, creativity and a form of communication.
But evolution lacks others, like foresight, self awareness and desire. The animals it creates has some of them, but not the system that is evolution.
Does your God have all those qualities?
What does a system have to have to be called intelligent?
What SETI is looking for is something close enough to us we might talk to it. Do you talk to God? |
Norm-- Didn't mean to dodge you. Here's your answers.
All I can tellyou for sure is that the Intelligent Agents that I know about do have all those items in (1) through (8), and of course the Bible claims these same attributes for God. It is my opinion that these claims are true ... however, I am not asking anyone to join me in that belief until I show my evidence supporting these claims. This is why I did not answer these in detail yet. My understanding of an intelligent agent is something similar to animal and human intelligence. I do not have rigorous criteria yet. Does God talk to me? Not in an audible voice, no. I will explain this more fully in the proper sequence.
More answers later. I'm breaking for lunch :-)
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A DILEMMA FOR THE COMMITTED NATURALIST
A Hi-tech alien spaceship lands on earth ... DESIGNED.
A Hi-tech alien rotary motor found in a cell ... NOT DESIGNED.
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