Mike, I don't actually understand what you mean by involution. I would like you to elaborate.
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Baudrunner ... well said .. randomness within the process favoured natural selection ... but .. if I read you right this does not rule out Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design allows for randomness within its parameters ?
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That depends on whether you mean that there is an intelligent being behind the creation of the Universe? Of course not. Intelligent design is a broad term that I personaly would interpret to mean evolution itself, survival of the fittest, natural selection based on random mutations becoming more adaptable to the environment by co-incidence and so on. I have often said that the anthropic principal should be restated to say the following: ..that things are the way they are because if they were any different then that is the way that they would be, and there would still be life to observe this. You see, I believe strongly in the anthropocentric nature of this Universe. Life will happen no matter what, simply because it is a necessary predisposition to the premonition that is responsible for the "big bang", ie.- the idea that anything would exist being so staggeringly awesome and profound that it simply issues into a manifestation of reality as we now know it. The creation of the Universe was a startling revelation in and of itself, before which nothing existed, not even time, and in order for that premonition to occur, there must be the consciousness which is responsible for it. An idea cannot exist without its creator, and we are the manifestation which represents that creator. Intelligence arises out of the evolution of life because a certain level of intelligence must exist to appreciate it, and to have premonition. The design is natural order. It would be a whole lot easier to understand this if we could time-lapse the entire history of the Universe from beginning to end into an instant. Then you would see that this all is just a shocking awakening.