ringo writes:
Think about this: All any intelligence can do is manipulate existing processes.
Yes, that's a good point. But I think an intelligence must have to UNDERSTAND a process before he could manipulate it, so not all intelligences are able to manipulate all existing processes - only the processes they understand.
And what if there is a higher intelligence than humans? Someone intelligent enough to construct life from chemicals using the laws of chemistry and physics? Someone who understands more natural processes than humans currently do?
Either there exists a higher race than man, which Francis Crick himself put forth decades after the helix discovery, along with the famous astronomer Hoyle,
OR there exists a form of life beyond our explanation by materialistic means alone.