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To: Fester Chugabrew
It stands to reason that an intelligent cause will produce intelligible results, i.e. organized matter that behaves according to predictable laws.

Why do you believe that organized matter behaving according to "predictable laws" is an intelligent result?
842 posted on 12/13/2005 7:40:16 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
Why do you believe that organized matter behaving according to "predictable laws" is an intelligent result?

I consider these things to be the result and ongoing activity of an intelligent agent. I do not ascribe intelligence to the result, per se, as if matter and it's laws are intelligent agents in and of themselves.

My reasons for deducing intelligent input from the results are 1.) the ability for the results to manifest themselves to intelligent beings (communication of information), 2.) the ensuing characteristic of quantifiability, and 3.) the consistency demonstrated by both matter and its laws over a period of time extending throughout my experience as an observer.

One could just as easily argue that organized matter and predictable laws are the result of infinitely possible combinations of matter over an indefinite period of time without any intelligent agent whatsoever. I cannot answer that argument. It, too, can be used to explain everything. That does not make it a wholly unscientific argument or assumption. In fact it may prove handy for certain people.

849 posted on 12/13/2005 7:59:16 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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