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We don't know how this came

We don't know how this came to be, so "God Did It".

To my knowledge no proponent of ID has ever said that because they are arguing from a position of what is known and what can be observed. We already know that mind can influence matter and that intelligent beings can imprint conceptual codes or languages on matter, creating patterns of information which are irreducible. It's a bit arrogant to think that we are the only beings in existence capable of acts of intelligent agency, especially given the notion of multiple universes beyond the millions of galaxies we already know of and so on.

Take yourself for instance, you may think that you are thinking and that the words that you write here are an artifact of your intelligence (inter- + legere to select!) represented in patterns of information in your neural nets but Darwinian reasoning tells us that natural "selection" guides and shapes every organism to the point that intelligence is an illusion which actually reduces to biological brain events and so on. Given the supposed rules of knowledge used to prop up Darwinism we cannot admit to your capacity for intelligent selection in the use of symbols and signs of your own design and instead, as a "rule," we must shift to natural selection and so on. So given what really guides your biological brain events I’m writing to a complex illusion that actually reduces in an unbroken chain of cause and effect to natural selection operating on the reproductive organs of ancient ape-like creatures, back to the mating habits of ancient worm-like creatures. It seems that the words that you use to reason out the thoughts that you only think you are thinking given the illusion of sentience and sapience typical to Homo sapiens may as well be worms, which may as well be excrement. How do you know that the brain events which cause you to think that Darwinism is true are correct?

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