Intelligent Design - Commentary

If the proponents of Intelligent Design (ID) are correct - that is, that there really is a superior, "divine" being planning everything concerning earth - then they should be very worried.

The dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years, yet they were extinguished along with almost everything else in a nuclear winter believed to be caused by either volcanoes or crashing asteroids. I guess in the ID schema this heartless devastation and ruin was planned to make way for mammals and, ultimately, humans. But who is to say humans are but a temporary step on the way to yet another dominant lifeform? Since we humans are along the path of creating silicone lifeforms, it seems likely that sentient machines might survive the next nuclear winter and go on to rule the Earth. Think of it! After billions of years, the supreme being would have a reasonably obedient following!

Lets follow this idea a short while longer: If robots ruled the earth for millions of years and got smarter and smarter, perhaps one day they too would wonder about their origins. How did we get started? How did CPUs and computer code come into being? Did wireless packet technology spontaneously come into existence? Then, if someone (meaning some robot, let's call him Darwinoid) suggested (to the other robots) that beings composed of meat and bone created them, I'm sure the other robots would kick Darwinoid out of the room. Imagine the insult to the super intelligent robots that meat-beings, almost identical to monkeys, created them. How could they come from such humble origins? How could they have come from that?

Well we came from that. Ooze. Amino acids. Early forms of bacteria. Perhaps some sort of predecessor to the virus, something neither dead or alive. Perhaps from something apallingly ordinary. And whose to say those primal forces weren't, in their own way, clever?

If a Supreme Being wanted dinosaurs, or humans, or robots (or humans programmed like robots), why bother with a universe that takes over 40 billion years to get the job done? If you can create matter just like that, why not just create little planets full of people like an ant farm? That would be the intelligent thing to do. Why, as religious people believe, would God appear to different people all around the world creating different religions and then sit back and watch them all murder each other? How much sense does that make?

Unless, of course, the Supreme Being is lazy and vindictive. Then whats a few billion years to get what you want? (Lazy) And when they finally come into being, if they don't jump to your commands, then murder them all! (Vindictive) Yeah that would fit. Or are there problems even with that? Problem one: A lazy God wouldn't give commands, in fact, they wouldn't give a damn what happened.

Why would any Supreme Being bother creating a universe like ours at all? Don't say Love. There is nothing loving about the billions of light years of dead rocks moving in a vacuum called the universe. There is nothing loving about SuperNovas, Black Holes and Quasars.

Mystics say that conciousness is matter becoming aware of itself. It's an argument that can't be refuted. But if that were really the case, wouldn't there be life on every planet and even on the Sun? If matter wanted to become aware of itself there would be Sun beings and Moon beings and on and on.

Proponents of Intelligent Design want poetry. They want an Uber Father. They want to surrender to something else. They want to be off the hook and forgiven for their many sins. They want the last word on imaginary friends. They say, "MY IMAGINARY FRIEND (GOD) IS THE ONLY IMAGINARY FRIEND". HE SAYS YOUR IMAGINARY FRIENDS ARE FAKE. HE DIDN'T TELL ME EXACTLY, HE APPEARED TO A GUY, WHO TOLD ANOTHER GUY, WHO PASSED IT ON TO ANOTHER GUY AND A FEW HUNDREDS YEARS LATER ANOTHER GUY WROTE ABOUT IT IN A BOOK THAT WAS LATER REVISED, EDITED, PURGED AND REORDERED, THEN TRANSLATED SEVERAL TIMES OVER SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF YEARS UNTIL IT GOT TO THE COPY HERE IN MY HAND. YOU WANT PROOF? HERE, READ THE BOOK!"