Do you beleive that matter without conciousness and intelligence can create, of itself, conciousness and intelligence?
2006-07-29 09:02:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok so were did the ingredients for a catalyst come from? The very fact we exist means that something must have created us.
2006-07-29 09:36:31 · update #1
Doesn't that depend on what you call intelligence? Is a wound intelligent? Does a wound reason that it needs to coagulate bloodflow to protect the body, and send antibodies to avoid infection? It doesn't think; it functions under God's law concerning evolution (if you believe in God), or simply the cosmic law (if you don't).
2006-07-29 09:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of itself? You make it sound like in the primordial soup of the early earth things just decided to become life. You obviously have never read a thing about what is thought to have happened. Every scientist I've read on the matter believes there had to have been some type of catalyst. Some examples of possible catalysts would be lightning, thermal energy, some even think life could have brought to the earth from comets and/or asteroids that impacted with the earth. Read up a little before you ask your questions. You'll at least appear more intelligent.
2006-07-29 09:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a chicken egg and crack it open and look it over.. Nope nothing living in there. No smarts of any kind and can't even be consitered as conciousness. Yet et a bird will grow from an egg. I have a bird in my house that talks. He knows he is alive and He can think. He knows he will get in trouble if he poops on me so he ask to go back to his cage. Not a high level of intelligence but still intelligence.
Are speaking of a tree or a plant of some kind. I would say yes because we at one time were just a couple of atoms that got mixed.
2006-07-29 09:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.
Yes because matter without conciousness and intelligence can, indeed, attain conciousness and intelligence on its own. Basically, it can learn; something doesn't need to be concious or intelligent to be capable of learning.
No, because "create" is really not the right word for it; "create" implies purpose and intention, whereas naturally occuring matter that learns (like a brain, for example) does not do so with the preplanned purpose or intention of learning.
2006-07-29 09:04:53 · answer #4 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may not be an atheist, but I know how they would reason. The process you describe is only one possible pathway to the creation of intelligence, and pre-supposes that intelligence is a sign of an imprint of a higher being; but what if it isn't? What if intelligence is merely clever programming of biological entities to ensure their full functionality? Then it would become biological again, and have nothing to do with creation through a higher, model entity. And it would also mean that it could simply evolve.
2006-07-29 09:10:04 · answer #5 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
consciousness and intelligence are just the understanding we give to electrical impulses that trigger in the synapses of the brain. These have evolved through the years to the present state of Homo sapian sapien (sp). So the matter first created single cell, then it changed and changed to get to first creatures with instinct. Then more changes and the first creatures with though came about. More and more changes then you get self awareness. More and more changes and you get to what we have now.
So, short answer. Yes. I do.
2006-07-29 09:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now, that's just plain silly, isn't it? Can you formulate an honest question, without embedding a 'Straw Man' argument in it?
Matter has no will of its own... but matter does get organized in accordance with natural forces. Molecules... crystals... planets... stars. The universe is a dynamic place... all sorts of stuff going on. Complexity arises from simplicity... complexity begets simplicity. Look up 'self-organizing complex systems'.
2006-07-29 09:16:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given enough time, the right ingredients and the right conditions, absolutely.
Prediction - In the next hundred years man will find simple life or indisputable fossil proof of it outside Earth.
That should end all the questions.
2006-07-29 09:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the entire written history there was some intelligence. Why should I worry what was before...?
Any question to this answer would create new questions, also for non-atheists, of course, if they really think.
2006-07-29 09:09:30 · answer #9 · answered by swissnick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-07-29 09:04:43 · answer #10 · answered by irenaadler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋