OK, so its been a while but ya know the Yanks are in the World Series so chill.

My buddy asked me some questions and I thought I would take a second to answer them as such as I can.

He wrote,

"Hmm. Well. First,I think that mental faculties do indicate a Creator, since I don't believe in 'spontaneous generation' of intellect any more than I believe that horse hairs turn into snakes,(and this was one belief of that earlier,simpler version of evolution),.BUT,that having been said,let's get on to the free will issue."

I am not arguing for the spontaneous generation of the intellect, however I do not think that the presence of an intellect in and of itself is necessarily proof of a Creator. The reason why is really simple. We experience intellect through our eyes only, and have a tendency to think that is the only way in which it can be experienced. However, we do not know what it is like to be say a snail, and as such do not have anyway of knowing for sure what or if snails think about anything. We may say that your garden variety snail seems a little slow, but maybe they are just really deep thinkers.

Understand, I do think that self/soul/nephesh/pneuma awareness is unique to human beings, but I am not sure that we cannot call the behavior of other animals 'non-intellectual' in the sense that they are surely aware of the world around them and react to it some certain ways. I know this is a little ticklish for some, but I do not think that the uniqueness of man necessarily precludes some sort of experience of the physical world on an intellectual level by other animals in Creation.

As such, I do not think the mere fact that we are curious about ourselves really holds water as a proof for the existence of God.

More to come.

Peace.