On “Intelligent Design”
Monday, June 13th, 2005“Intelligent Design” is the theory that human complexity surpasses the explanations of common complexity theory and is a result of some Intelligent Design. Since humans are intelligent and we cannot create such complexity from nothing, it is plausible to argue that the force that created humans was of a Stupendously Intelligent Design (StupID). Provided the StupID hypothesis we may inquire as to the attributes of this designer. For the sake of analysis we can postulate that there is a single Great Designer ordained in some way to create humans. This Great Ordained Designer, if we choose to believe in him, must have been aware of all possible challenges that humans are to overcome if his design was to succeed as it has. This omniscience must be acquired by some force of observation. The world is constantly changing and the requirements for human design must be synchronized with the environment and it is necessary for the designer to be ubiquitous in order to observe and maintain his design. These two attributes are not easy to achieve. We could reason that a sophisticated enough being might be distributed so as to both observe and maintain such a design. The primary concern for such distribution is power - both to maintain the distributed entities and to communicate changes that need to be reflected in the design. The conclusion we drawn then is that the Great Ordained Designer is not only omniscient and ubiquitous but also omnipotent. A StupID “theory” indeed.