[Stultis]

In short, the economic development of NYC food supplies is not a good model for demonstrating self-organization completely apart from intelligence or design.

So what? I don't see how it really matters -- insofar as debating the issue with you -- how good or bad a model is.

You've already stated, in #495, that "every particle of the universe expresses itself collectively in such a way as to manifest design and intelligence". Clearly, unless your claim about "every particle" is qualified as mere musing, or as a philosophical but not a scientific principle, then there is, a priori, no possible model that will be acceptable to you.

[WildTurkey]

, then there is, a priori, no possible model that will be acceptable to you.

You got that right.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . unless your claim about "every particle" is qualified as mere musing, or as a philosophical but not a scientific principle . . .

My words at #495 were prefaced with, "But I am fairly certain," so they were indeed qualified. It is not my aspiration to make biblical creation a tenet of science, unlike those who deceive themselves and others into thinking the philosophy of evolution is anything but the same.