[general_re]

I would tend to order it the other way around, with the group heading "Intelligent Design theories" and underneath - Judeo/Christian, YEC, panspermia, universal consciousness, etc.

That hardly seems unreasonable, if you find it more convenient or more accurate to think of it in those terms.

I personally believe that naturalistic/materialistic theories - all strongly deterministic theories - also point to a creation despite all their objections to the contrary. I say this because all of the theories require a beginning - even imaginary time theory, multi-verses and ekpyrotic cosmology.

Possibly. Perhaps some things are simply not knowable to us. Yet. ;)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your reply and for your accepting my preference for a hierarchical organization of the theories!

Perhaps some things are simply not knowable to us. Yet.

Indeed. In the end, some may label the unknown as the "anthropic principle" while others choose the term "intelligent design".