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Author Topic:   Does complexity require intelligent design?
No Moon
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Message 174 of 229 (196822)
04-05-2005 2:29 AM
Reply to: Message 173 by AdminNosy
04-05-2005 1:38 AM


The way things go
My sculpture teacher showed my class this video by this artist who I forget the name of, but anyways, this video was called "the way things go". When I watched it, i thought to myself that I've done the same type of thing on my own as a kid.
The video is basically a domino effect sculpture of a sort. One event sets off a chain of other events using stored kinetic energy in the initial set up. This made me think: Is not a human brain (an intelligent designer) not just a domino effect of neurons and hormones carrying chain reactions of electrical impulses throughout it's network that was initially set up from conception, nutrition, experience, learning, genetic instinct, radiation, damage, trauma, and...well...your soul?
This could validate that the universe is actually a thinking machine who's processes directly affect it's constituant components at different levels of complexity, from the string, to the membrane, to the ion, to the atom, to the molecule, to the protien, to the cell, to the tissue, to the organ, to the organism, to the super organism. The human brain is made up of nodes made up of neurons in telescoping levels of complexity throughout from white matter which is the simplest and simply transfers data from one portion of the brain to the other and the grey matter which is the most complex parts of the brain that is the cortex.
It's plain as day. If the universe really exists, then it MUST be intelligent on some kind of level. One could consider mentally retarded people to be intelligent on some kind of level as the format of their neurons are debilitated by some lacking production of some kind of protien or previous brain damage, but still intelligent none the less. Hell, you could even use a fish's brain as a kind of biological computer processor to calculate stuff. And a computer processor is just a transistor that turns on and off, theoretically, the processes of the human brain could be simulated in a computer if it was big enough, powerful enough, fast enough. So why can't a tree falling in the woods or a star exploding be god? Why can't me shaking your hand be an act of god in the terms I've stated?

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