First you have to define intellegence. There are really two ways you could go with it(I'll tell you which one is my way later). The first way you could define intelligence is as knowledge. At that point you have to ask yourself, what is knowledge? Can you see knowledge? Can you hear knowledge? Knowledge is information. Information is everywhere. A car is a combination of matter, energy, and information. It has patterns and symetry easily interpreted by our minds. Everything has information to it. So is it possible to know every bit of information? Is information an actual existing thing? The question is, if God knows all information, is it becuase he learned it(I doubt it), or because he wrote it? Hmmmm? We think of natural things so... natural. Gravity is a "natural" thing, a characteristic of all matter. But is there matter in the universe without the characteristic of gravity? Maybe there is matter in the universe that doesn't follow any of the physics and/or laws we are so used to. It's deep thinking, and is something we don't usually probe our minds into(it can give you quite a headache), but an all-powerful God could do such things.
So Macro intelligent design is not impossible assuming that God created the laws that govern us, and then created us.
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while numerous arguments based on hard fact, as opposed to hearsay, can be made supporting the existence of micro intelligence, beginning with molecular intelligence and rising hierarchically to cellular, tissue and organ (the human brain is an organ) intelligence.
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Those are some huge jumps I must say. Molecules naturally form, with no outside forces acting on them, into entire working cells with all of their irreducibly complex systems, and then, the cells begin to grow into living tissue formations which somehow over time flops around until it becomes organized organs that work together as a system, relying on one another to keep the whole thing alive. Wow! No way there was intellegence involved! I just planned and mapped out the entire theory in it's simplest terms! I should pack my things, get a new name and move far enough from home so that no one would recognize me, call myself an expert and then write a book that will make me rich and famous in the history books, and all because I posted on a web site. WOW! I wonder if this is what Darwin did to get famous!
Now the multiple designers question is not a weakness to Design, because Intellegent Design does not say how many designers there were. If talking about roman Gods, hundreds! If talking about little green men from mars, maybe thousands! If talking about Jews, one God. So although we can't determine how many designers there were, there still remains the fact that it was designed by a higher intelligence.
William Parley I don't believe literally referred to just ONE supreme God, just that everything was made by the same creator(s).
Finally, the other way you could go with all of this is that intellegence is the ABILITY to grasp information. The ABILITY to learn. Unfortuneately for this argument, in your little essay, which was well written(I commend you), the problem is that Molecules don't have the ability to comprehend and understand things around them; they are non-living matter. It is the same for cells and tissue.
So I can only interpret your post with the understanding that intellegince = information, and that information was written by God for Macro designing.
Thanks for your insights, thegenie!
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