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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curiosity is what takes us further. We'd have made no strides in science and medicine without if. It's human nature, not proof of intelligent design. If anything, it points towards evolution. [/quote]

Curiosity, asking why, is only found in intelligent, sentient creatures.  For billions of years, there were only unintelligent, unconscious processes of matter, energy, motion, force.  Yet, apparently, things continued to get more complex.  At some moment, the formerly unintelligent became intelligent, became capable of self reflection, and asking why.  How was there an utter lack of intelligence before, and pointless intelligence (there is no "why") now?[/quote]

If there is one thing that science has learned during the last fifty years, it is that we are increasingly less unique in our cognitive abilities.  We didn't recognize intelligence because we did not know how to understand behavior that was not represented in spoken English.  Now, the more we study, the more we realize that "uniquely human" traits show up in more places in the animal kingdom.[/quote]

True.  Dolphins and whales with their sophisticated communication...the social structure of elephants and meerkats...amazing, really.  And in the vastness if space, there could be other intelligent creatures we don't know about yet.

But this just confirms the universe is composed of unintelligent materials and processes as well as intelligent creatures.  It does not explain the origin of intelligence.[/quote]

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