[baudrunner]

Michael, I believe that involution as you interpret it then is 'self direction' using nature's evolution as the only available tool to facilitate the process.

Graybeard, I understand your conundrum.

I don't have difficulty with the absence of a 'director' of creation. To me, intelligent design is represented solely by the order which ultimately brings forth the fruit of life, but there is no 'designer', per se. That random evolutionary traits determine survival cannot be argued, and I have stated that since the time frames are so immense for a progression to a higher lifeform from a simpler one that random coincidental mutation is the only plausible means to have effected this. The anthropic principle seems to determine that life will happen, and I am merely making an effort to justify that fact, so I have come up with this 'premonition' idea, for lack of a better word. We find manifestations of the same in the impressario-like characteristics of human nature, that we are awed by greatness, wowed by wonder, stirred by grandiose importance. We almost crave these reactions, these emotions, and they are an inescapable component of our egos. Anthropocentrism is the literal personification of creation, and the way that life has unfolded, and is obviously determined to unfold, is the expression of that literal device. It is an awesome event, creation. It is the realization that anything would exist being so staggeringly awesome and profound. It is a very heavy idea.