Jim_Wynne
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| Quote (GaryGaulin @ May 05 2015,17:55) | | Quote (N.Wells @ May 05 2015,13:51) | | Quote (Jim_Wynne @ May 05 2015,11:16) | | Quote | | This is the only known Theory of Intelligent Design that provides scientifically testable predictions and models to explain the origin of intelligence and how intelligent cause works. |
That's from here, with emphasis added.
Gary, what is the origin of intelligence? You should be able to answer the question in one sentence and without reference to diagrams we've already seen. |
You're just yanking his chain trying to get him to post The Diagram again, aren't you?
It's self-similar turtles, all the way down. :)
I second the question, Gary. What is the origin, and how is your model relevant to your answer? |
Or as Elmer Fudd would say "wank my chain" but I guess that in the UK culture it's taken a whole other way.
Since you seem to be looking for an official Intelligent Design answer it is perhaps best that I quote the official Discovery Institute premise, which already defines what's most different about the theory (such as main illustration having to show multilevel intelligent cause/causation, not natural selection).
| Quote | | The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. |
The religious implications that are in the above statement are a religious matter, not scientific. Therefore your religion based objections that seem to prove the statement to be false are out of bounds of science, to begin with.
I keep the science and religion very well separated. The result is my having no difficulty staying within the framework of the ID movement. From what I have so far we are from intelligence that's a few billions of years old today. The now better understood ability of place cell networks in our brain to cause NDE's and such only made the mystery even more exciting, from a religious perspective too. There is then a trinity of interacting intelligence levels causing consciousness. Even where we know what in our multicellular brain causes this consciousness there is still plenty of explaining left to do. This keeps the ID science discovery fun going, for decades to come. |
So again, you and your " theory" explain nothing about the *origin* of intelligence. You do know what "origin" means, right? Or is it just more Humpty-Dumptyism on your part?
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Evolution is not about laws but about randomness on happanchance.--Robert Byers, at PT
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