Please help me understand this. If I correctly understand classical evolution theory, it asserts that all living organisms descended from a single parent through a process of mutation and natural selection. Not being a scientist, I’m probably not using all the right terminology here but hopefully you'll get the gist. The Homo sapien (Hs) is therefore a product of this process. However Hs seems to be all about intelligent design. He is endowed with an amazingly creative imagination. (And what is imagination?) What he sees in his mind he creates, such as this computer I’m using now and the discussion I’m initiating now. He has totally transformed the environment in which he lives including tinkering with the biology of other living organisms and adding new elements to the periodic table. And of course we could go on and on describing all the other expressions of design that come from Hs in the arts, sciences, language, culture, etc.
But many of us would argue that this very sophisticated intelligent designer, unique on earth’s landscape, has been produced by the evolutionary process that Darwin describes. Can we make sense of this? Can such a super creation as Hs — an intelligent designer - be the product of mutation and natural selection where there is no intelligent design input? Behe talks about irreducible complexity. Hs seems to be an example of ordered, creative complexity taken to the nth degree. I’ll welcome comments on this observation.
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