Posted: Jul 26, 2010 5:33 pm
amused wrote:I'm not promoting any type of creationism that involves a creator separate from creation. I'm wondering out loud if the universe itself has intent, and thus the ability to create itself as it sees fit. Probably a derail from the OP so I'll start a new thread.
Ok, I accept that you are not plugging for a god-creator.
But to have "intent" you have to have consciousness or intelligence, how does that work.
How can the universe have "intent". To be sure, when biologists are studying adaptations, they can take a fruitful "stance" from an "engineering perspective" and pretend "design" or "purpose" as a sort of metaphor, or shorthand for NS as a filtering mechanism. "What is the purpose of a bird''s wing" or "How good is this limb design for power or speed?" Is that your argument?