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To: AntiGuv; Alamo-Girl

Were the universe to be deterministic and not of an intelligent design, then one must posit the universe itself as some prior, highly organized entity that spawns highly organized subsystems. That would beg the question, too, of the first organized universe, or the organizing principle that underlies it.


1,990 posted on 05/31/2005 1:48:23 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
That is true, but the organizing principle need not be intelligent. Two examples of non-intelligent organizing principles are general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Some would posit that the ultimate organizing principle that underlies the universe is the Theory of Everything (hence, the name..) but I guess we can't be sure unless and until we discover it!

1,991 posted on 05/31/2005 2:14:14 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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