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Intelligent Design

Intelligence – Merriam-Webster

The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations: reason also: the skilled use of reason

The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests).

Other sources:

The ability to use memory, knowledge, experience, understanding, reasoning, imagination, and judgement to solve problems and adapt to new situations.

Knowledge – Merriam-Webster

The fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association.

The sum of what is known: the body of truth, information, and principles acquired by humankind.

Reason – Merriam-Webster

A statement offered in Explanation or Justification.

The thing that makes some fact intelligible.

The power of comprehending, inferring, or thinking especially in orderly rational ways: intelligence.

Part One – Rivers of Knowledge – Expansion and Travel

The current level of INTELLIGENCE that mankind has achieved was the result of man’s “collective intelligence” expanding. Intelligence cannot increase without first having an increase in intelligence via an increase in acquired knowledge - GRW.

What makes the above statement reasonable fact? The answer lies in the power of the collective. Let’s take a trip back in time a few thousand years ago. Our earliest secular history draws us to somewhere near the area of Euphrates River – for good reason as the Bible indicates as such even though the timeframes would have differed. Mankind divided into various people groups, villages, tribes, nations and civilizations. What was it that differentiated the tribes which remained primitive from the civilizations that became technologically complex (for their time)? The sharing of knowledge. Were the less advanced incapable of learning? No. They possessed the same reasoning power, yet without the input of more knowledge, their advancements remained minimal. Their level of intelligence was lower because they did not have the knowledge, experience, nor the memory of similar situations to further drive their imaginations to solve new problems which would result in the expansion of their technology.

As people traveled, intermingled, and shared knowledge, the collective knowledge of the world continued to grow, and therefore, overall intelligence was expanding as well. Unfortunately, many great (advanced for their day) civilizations eventually became isolated from the rest of the world through tyranny, war, or natural phenomenon (disasters). As a result, any new advancements gained by the experience of these lost civilizations were probably lost forever because of the lack of information sharing to the rest of the world.

Why was the indigenous population of the Americas far more primitive than the Europeans that arrived in the 1400’s? Any knowledge that may have been gained from their Eastern European/Asian, etc., ancestors was lost through isolation and time. Why did tribes of North America not develop more rapidly in their technology? In our estimation of time, their migration to North America was not that long ago. Over the generations, there was left no memory or history of any of the building, farming, mathematical, etc., advancements that had progressed Europe/Asia to the point they were at the time of their arrival in the West. They had digressed because of being isolated from the rest of the world. They were cut off from the flow of information that would have increased their knowledge and overall intelligence.

As travel became more and more efficient, the vast amounts of acquired knowledge greatly increased the collective intelligence of the entire world. Over time, it has become less likely that knowledge gained could be lost as in the past lost civilizations. It has been said that there was a complete doubling of the earth’s collective knowledge by the time of the industrial age (1760 – 1840) which entered us into the era of industry and machine manufacturing. The twentieth century ushered in an explosion of knowledge resulting in air travel, electronics, medical, genetics and the birth of artificial intelligence. How was this happening so quickly in a relatively short period of time when compared to the rest of human history? Information sharing. During the 1990’s, travel of a different sort linked the entire world via a massive Information Highway – the Internet. It has been said that more was learned during that decade than ever before in the history of the world. Forward in time to 2022 and it is estimated that the volume of knowledge is doubling every twelve hours. The doubling rate in 1945 was every 25 years. It is now expanding at an exponential rate.

With this rapid expansion of knowledge and intelligence, many scientists and global elites are saying that we not only have the capability of understanding life but that we are on the cusp of creating it. At any rate, we are on the brink of altering/augmenting/integrating man with computer/machine technology. Reality is, man may be able to integrate/augment a person with computer tech, yet can man, at his current level of knowledge and intelligence, actually create intelligent, sentient life?

Part Two – Artificial Intelligence

Sentient

Merriam-Webster

Responsive to or conscious of sense impressions. Finely sensitive in perception or feeling.

Other Sources:

Having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge. Aware. Finely sensitive in perception or feeling.

Modern AI quickly draws upon massive amounts of data, yet it still does not possess what can be called consciousness. It does not have the realization nor the perception of being alive nor of feelings and true self-awareness. The following is a quote from an article by Big Think in 2018: “No current computer or any type of A.I. can be said to have the least amount of sentience compared to the animal kingdom, especially when many scientists posit that some animals have a kind of consciousness.” Apparently, as far as bugs are concerned, cockroaches are some of the smartest, yet, according to Big Think, “…A.I. still lags behind.” According to that article, Theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku’s summation comparing A.I. to cockroaches is as follows:

“At the present time, our most advanced robots, some of which are built in Japan and also at MIT, have the collective intelligence and wisdom of a cockroach; a mentally challenged cockroach; a lobotomized, mentally challenged cockroach.”

Even with the thousands of years of collective knowledge and the ever-growing intelligence of mankind, we still cannot create an artificial intelligence with the brain power of a cockroach, let alone a true sentient life form. So, how could sentient life have been a product of evolution? Can life-less, brainless, atoms use reason and imagination to see the need to adapt to new situations, then problem solve to create new advanced forms of life – from cell building to bacteria, etc.? Did one atom intentionally communicate with other atoms to solve a problem relating to an idea regarding the creation of something new? When cells were formed, was it with the goal of creating a life form? Was this idea and knowledge gained then passed on to other atoms? Could this knowledge have been exponentially doubled and retained by so many cells that life was formed? Realistically, could sentient life truly have evolved from lifelessness? If it took millions of years for one cell to evolve, what is the likelihood of another cell evolving to match it; combine their knowledge; see the need for further advancement; then act upon that need to eventually produce - intelligence?

What does it take to believe that the process of evolution is fact? It takes complete blind faith in vast amounts of unsubstantiated, undocumented, unwitnessed events. Evolutionary scientists begin with a theory, not fact, as a starting point. They then attempt to factualize further theory to support the initial theory, until they have essentially created a scenario that works for them. This has been refined and packaged into “the theory of evolution” except presented as “the facts of evolution.” Since the great scientific minds of our time say it’s all true, then it must be. Any arguments to the contrary are un-factual and classified as misinformation. Yet, their entire scenario began with only theory - not scientifically corroborated and witnessed facts.

So, just how intelligent are the great scientific minds of our time? With all of our current acquired knowledge and intelligence, we still have not figured out the intricate complexities of even bacteria.

Part Three - Complexity and Improbability

Imagine a completely autonomous submarine that functions without any human interaction whatsoever. It would be composed of one to several engines depending upon the environment that it is tasked to navigate. There would be an on-board manufacturing plant that would assemble and ship replacement parts to each motor that requires a tune up, repair or upgrade. The motors would be self-assembling and self-repairing.

This vessel would require an incredibly sophisticated artificial intelligence in order to catalog and tag each part of every motor, ship to location and assemble. When a part is to be replaced, AI would send an order to the plant detailing the part required, the address that it is to be shipped to, etc. If a new motor is to be built and brought online, scaffolding would first be ordered and constructed to help hold certain parts in place on the sub’s inner wall until completion. A fuel channel to an ion pump would initially be constructed as well.

The performance of the motors themselves would far exceed anything in production today. Whereas shafts spin on modern submarines at around 250 revolutions per second, these new motors would have the capability of driving the propellors at 300 to 1700 revolutions per second (18,000 to 102,000 rpm). Yet, within a quarter turn of a rotor spinning clockwise, it would be able to completely reverse in direction.

The motors would be rotary electric engines comprised of a main rotor, drive shaft, a flexible universal joint penetrating the sub’s outer wall and one or more long helical flexible propellors. The motor’s rotor would be turned by up to 12 powered stator units (powered gears) more or less, coming on or offline depending on the load required at any given moment. Instead of electron flow as in conventional electrical motors, these stator units would rely upon an ion motive force via a channel that conducts protons (H+) or sodium ions (Na+) to the stators, thus applying force on the rotor. Of course, this is just an overview of a motor that would be far more complex than described as it would contain many additional parts as well. Such as, bearings, bushings, advanced lubricant for a virtually frictionless environment and a clutch. The presence of various gears from the main rotor to the drive shaft would result in an incredibly efficient reduction drive as well.

Upon assembly (real time): Each stator unit is connected to the ion pump via a fuel channel. However, since the motor is not quite ready for the flow of ions (fuel), plugs are inserted in the top of each stator which keeps the flow of energy from turning the powered stator gears before the rest of the rotary engine is completed. Once all construction of components, from sub wall attachment to rotor to tip of propellor has been completed, then and only then are the plugs released from the stator units. This then allows ions to flow, powering rotation of the stator gears which rotates the main rotor, thus rotating the propeller pushing the sub forward at unprecedented speeds. Keep in mind, this is all done autonomously from the manufacturing of parts, cataloging, shipping, construction, load sensing to determine the number of stators online at any given time, navigation, and, most importantly - purpose.

How close are we to building this incredible submarine - technology wise? Not even close. At our current level of knowledge and intelligence, we do not possess the capability of building such a vessel. Men would need to advance AI (programming) to the point of sentient thought – to handle the complexities of all operational components previously stated, as well as for navigation with a purpose. It would require major advancements in the fields of logistics, robotics, assembly and repair. It would require advancement in fuel and motor technology. So, are we anywhere close, technology wise? Not in the slightest. It could take hundreds if not thousands of years to acquire the knowledge and intelligence needed to build an intelligence with these capabilities. Mankind would literally need to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) far beyond even the point of Artificial Sentient Intelligence (ASI). It would be ASI that was fully aware of itself, its surroundings, its counterparts, its purpose. It would need to have the capability of self-replication, thus creating life all on its own for its own purposes. It would be nothing less than Skynet on super steroids. How long would it take for mankind to develop the kind of ASI that had the intelligence to actually self-replicate, thus creating ASI all on its own for its own purposes? Man took thousands of years acquiring enough knowledge to finally come up with the motor, electrical and computer technology of today. Yet it is a far cry from the imagined ASI driven, ion rotary electric submarine technology I have just described.

So, if logic dictates that it would take an immense, probably unattainable amount of knowledge and intelligence to build a finished ASI driven super sub, how is it that within most every bacteria cell, this technology exists and far greater than described above. Men once thought that bacteria propelled themselves randomly by - squiggling around if you will. However, a few decades ago, it was discovered that these propellors (flagella) protruding from these cells were in fact driven by tiny Molecular Rotary Electric Motors. Time and time again, advancements in microscopy have proven these tiny motors to be more complex and far superior in operation and efficiency than anything we have in production today. Years have been dedicated by scientists all over the world attempting to explain even the smallest of the various components within these motors - such as the stator units. When one component is assumed to be understood, further research reveals additional complexity, none of which even comes close to understanding the method (thought - AI) behind the manufacturing, shipping, construction processes - not to mention navigation and replication.

How could such complexity exist in primitive unintelligent organisms? How could the technology built into a bacterium be comparable to and far exceed what man has taken thousands of years of knowledge and intellectual growth to achieve? How could an Electrical Rotary Motor that is built on the fly, operates autonomously, looks and operates like a typical modern engine (yet more efficiently), with a fully functioning navigation system exist in bacteria? Ask any submarine manufacturer what it took to invent, build and perfect even the most primitive submarine that ever existed. Well, thousands of years of knowledge building, and thousands of engineers to invent, test, retest, reengineer and eventually perfect the product. Advance to our more modern subs and you need to include thousands of programmers, engineers and laborers from hundreds of professions. Literally, it has taken thousands of minds. How many minds are behind the operation of one nuclear class sub? Thousands, from the manufacture of the hull to the engines to the programming of navigational systems. Could a primitive but technologically advanced bacterium with more advanced capabilities than a modern submarine manufacture (replicate itself), build advanced engines on the fly as needed, and navigate – all without some sort of mind (sentient intelligence) behind it all?

When reading articles by scientists studying these molecular rotary motors, it is painfully obvious that they very purposefully strive to indicate millions of years of evolutionary processes as being the sole reason for the existence of these tiny technological wonders. From the outside of that community looking in, it seems perfectly comical to watch their panic and gyrations when formulating new explanations every time a new discovery debunks all of their previous assumptions. So, being realistic, how could this complex technology have already existed before anyone or any mind was around to invent it? Well, it could not have existed. Therefore, what intelligence existed that saw the need for such technology having also the ability to perfectly create it? We have proven that it takes massive amounts of knowledge leading to massive amounts of intelligence to even come close to this kind of ASI driven technology. Could evolution have created what amounts to super ASI driven submarines? Of course not. Only a sentient mind of infinite intelligence could govern the workings of atoms, forming cells and tiny complex machines that live in human beings.

God alone possesses infinite wisdom, infinite knowledge, and infinite intelligence. He alone is responsible for creation. In six days, He created the heavens, the Earth, and us. Man, nor the fallacy of evolution could ever create sentient life. Scientists struggle with the probability of intelligence as its “evolutionary” existence realistically depends upon a series or chain of improbable events. Yet, understanding this, they would still rather believe in complete blind chance, as in, surely it would be possible that if an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters could write Hamlet. The improbability of that is easier for them to believe than believing that there is an intelligent mind behind it all - the Lord God of all creation.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things (Romans 1:18-23).

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible (Hebrews 11:3).

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