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Syamsu 
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06-02-2002 2:45 AM


I will repeat again here what I said about intelligent design in the falsification of Natural Selection thread, in the hope that somebody will address the good and bad points of what I propose, now that the subject is in the proper forum. Specifically I am interested in response from creationists.
It is possible for even very literalist bible-interpretations of creation to be true, by assuming evolution and complementing it with a theory of intelligence.
As far as I know, any definition of intelligence has been largely absent in the intelligent design discipline. Promising scientific definitions of intelligence, as used by people working on artificial intelligence, center on the concept of randomness, chance, choice, or in short, event where things can go one way or another.
The point of origin for an organism by this sort of theory of intelligence, is not the point where an organism appears, but it is the point where it is relatively certain that the organism will appear. For example, we could theorize that at some point in time where there are no people at all in the universe, that the relative certainty of any people coming to be is 70 percent.
So for biblical literalism to be true by this theory of intelligence, it should be found true that the relative certainties for the main kinds of organism that we have now, and most all else, to have been set in 6 choices at the beginning of the universe. Most everything being a relatively certain aftereffect in respect to these 6 choices.
I think it is quite likely to have scientific merit that the main sorts of creatures we have now were already 99 or a 100 percent certain to be here from a point close to the start of the universe. We would still not be able to measure the presence of God of course in these events at the beginning of the universe, they would just look like the randomness in rolling a dice. But still, it is possible for the bible to be quite literally or scientifically true by such a theory of intelligence. That it could be in fact more true to say that the main sorts of organisms with all their sophistication, were created whole in one or a few days which we can pinpoint, then to say they have been gradually evolved.
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu

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