Another "New" View of Creation

So, when something reacts as it's physical properties make it react (like an inflated rubber ball bounces when it hits a solid surface due to its elasticity and rebound) that indicates intelligence? The fact that a round peg won't go in a square hole is a sign of intelligence? It's really just a function of reality having a set of laws. You could argue that the cause of those rules is intelligent, but the consequences of those rules are not, by any definition, intelligent themselves.

Intelligence requires a mind. It requires the ability to understand, to make decisions, and yes, to have volition. In short, it requires a brain or other similar apparatus.And that's just based off the DEFINITION of intelligence. It doesn't have to be a scientific fact that circles have a round shape...it's part of the definition of the word circle. I could say that a block of wood displays circularity because it sits there doing what blocks of wood does. This would be wrong though, because a block fo wood sitting there does not show any aspect of what being a circle means, I'm just redefining a word that everyone already knows the original definition for. No, it's not intelligence, it's programming, it's natural laws. It's a predictable reaction caused by a known stimulus. No it's not. Life has an ambiguous definition that allows many people to make a judgement call on the exact point. Intelligence, has a much more rigid definition than you're employing. While there are reasons to question what actually displays intelligence in the animal world, that does not mean you can jump to the complete other end of the spectrum and say, maybe there's intelligence here, too. There can be honest debate about which point in the light spectrum orange becomes red, but you can't go to blue and say, there's red here because we don't know exactly where orange stops and red begins.

There are many mass extinction events throughout history. There's the Permian Extinction, the Cretaceous Extinction, just to name a few. Some of these events have wiped out upwards of 99% of all extant species. The fact that a few survive isn't too surprising though, because small creatures require small amounts of food, and can find something somewhere on which to live until the environment heals.In fact, that's what happened after the dinosaurs, mammals were all pretty small, mouse sized for the most part, and could survive on the scraps left after the asteroid hit. Birds, likewise, were pretty small. Animals have a will to survive, and will do all within their power to find food, water, and a mate. The animals that can't, die, the ones thast do, live.It doesn't take a huge amount of species, it only takes a handful, and they will quite rapidly (in evolutionary terms) expand to fill all the available niches. That's how mammals could rise to supremacy, the reptiles who had been in charge mostly died out, leaving a lot of open niches to fill.

Interesting turn of phrase...do you think crawler is her pimp? Edited by Perdition, : No reason given.