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"There's certainly none [intelligence] in your post..."

Before I shut up and defer to someone who is so obviously my intllectual superior, I'll make a couple of comments. The body of a mammal - or that of much simpler organisms - is more complex than a 747, yet evolutionary theory posits it as having developed by random processes apart from any guiding intelligence. Since no intelligence is needed to create the mammal, why do you need to posit "intelligence" to create a 747? Indeed, psychologists of the behaviorist school - taking their cue from evolutionary theory - have tried to describe human behavior apart from any recourse to notions of "mind," intelligence, creativity, etc, and merely in terms of reflexive, learned responses to physical stimuli.

So I am saying that the denial of "intelligent design" has implications for any notion whatsoever of the human mind as being a creative power in its own right, or of human "free will" having any reality other than as an illusion of the ego. If you are going to deny that there is any intelligence at work in the process of evolution, you are probably undermining the notion of intelligence altogether, not to mention free will. And when people deny free will, they are tempted to deny the importance of political freedom. That is why mechanistic evolutionism and naturalism have always been pillars of the mental universe of the far Left.