Beyond this distraction, you now state – “ I know that mind cannot come from anything without mind.” So do you believe in an ‘ultimate designer’ for life and the universe?
I’ll answer your question first:
“So do you believe in an ‘ultimate designer’ for life and the universe? “
No! It’s only my view and I’m only answering your question. I neither expect nor particularly desire for anyone to agree with it.
I’ll address a little bit of your argument just for the discussion’s sake.
“On a logical basis, if there was an infinite past to nature we would never reach ‘here and now.’”
What logic would that be? It would be interesting to see it put in the form of a syllogism. But accepting your premise, it would have to reach someplace, and since it has infinitely long to do it, that someplace can be anyplace, including here and now.
Your argument rests on the modern view of time as a thing. Time is actually only the relationship between motions, the other relationship being velocity. Time does not “progress,” or do anything else, anymore than velocity does.
I’m not sure what your point is by, “natural processes cannot create natural processes.” I think the meaning depends on what you mean by “create.” If you mean, for example, man as a natural being cannot create life (perhaps a living computer for example) I totally agree with you. If you mean one natural process cannot initiate another one, the birth of every animal disproves that.
Thank you for the comments.