[GodGunsGuts]

Very good observations. Shouldn't science be allowed to ask obvious questions, like “Does the design we see in life require a designer?” Or “Does life's blueprint require an intelligent architect?” Or “Does the program of life require an intelligent programmer?” etc, etc.

[adorno]

Very good observations. Shouldn't science be allowed to ask obvious questions, like “Does the design we see in life require a designer?” Or “Does life's blueprint require an intelligent architect?” Or “Does the program of life require an intelligent programmer?” etc, etc.

Houw 'bout another, perhaps bigger and perhaps much more complex question...

Is intelligence something that arises just from organic material? By organic material, I'm referring to animals, including humans.

Does science understand intelligence in humans, or of any other animal? How 'bout, might trees or other plant forms also have intelligence, but in the form that we haven't discovered yet?

What is intelligence but the interaction of chemicals with other chemicals, resulting in the conversion of those chemical interaction into a form of energy which we call "intelligence". Whether the interactions result in electrical pulses or magnetic pulses or other forms of energy, they are nevertheless what constitutes the pulses necessary for intelligence.

Now, in the universe and everywhere around us, those same types of pulses are interacting. Who is to say that within the sun, as hot and as massive as it is, that there aren't the same type of interactions happening? And, if it's the interaction of chemicals and the different types of energy that determine intelligence, then intelligence is all around us.

The sun might be an intelligence unto itself, ans so would a galaxy and so would the whole universe.

Might intelligence be all around us, but we just aren't equipped to recognize it?

Could the earth, with all its complexities, be itself an intelligent entity? We might have been right those times when we referred to our planet as "Mother Earth".