What is Intelligent Design (ID)?

What is Intelligent Design (ID)?

ID is the evolved energy/matter continuum, the Cosmos, Einstein's MC².
M is mass, energy's embodiment, the substantiation of energy.
C² is the speed-of-light constant (Celeritas).

ID is flesh, the evolving complexity of embodied soul.
"Embodiment" is coherent materiality, the construct of light slowed-down.

"Soul" is the conscious purpose of energy inherent in embodied complexity (matter).

ID is the bi-lobar, dialogical cortical brain.
Bi-lobar dialog is between rational and emotional intelligence.

"Rational Intelligence" is a process of soul/body information-processing, a male-characterized process of information-communication.

"Emotional Intelligence" is a memory processing complex, wherein the certitude of knowledge (wisdom) is imprinted and made accessible for recall, a female-characterized re-membering process of socialized consciousness.

Intelligent Design is male-communication processing and female-consciousness processing, whose joined outcome is conscience, intentional symbiotic living.

Intelligent Design is means/end processing of rationality", the trimorphic resonance of communication, consciousness and conscience, a self-reflective energy-complex of cosmic iteration, evolution.

Intelligent Design is the evolving, symbiotic purpose (function/form) of dialogic intelligence continuing in embodied consciousness.

Intelligent Design is a repeat challenge of every life journey, personally unique, possible, and necessary.

The personal/social story of today is an embodied iteration of yesterday's story, "The Great Story" celebrated in memory, myth, and purposeful retelling.

E-Consciousness
Until Einstein light was sunshine waving,
Warm, but without substance.
After Einstein light is seen differently,
The dot matrix holding together consciousness,
In point-of-fact matter.

Liquid Light
Conceives insight inside darkness,
Births water outside hardness.
Myths are about faith enlightenment
And so is Einstein.
Faith like sunshine is more than a smiley face.

Comments: 4

Sylvester Steffen Jan 12, 2006, 5:37pm UTC

Ryan references Tom Bethell: "if you want to define evolution as adaptation, then, yes, evolution is a fact." It seems arbitrary, fanciful, misdirective and unhelpful to attack Kingkong ad hominem and eschew the consideration that the king and humans have common origins. The evolution/ID conversation puts fundamental questions before us (from the perspective of faith consciousness): Are we to live by faith alone? by reason alone? or by faith/reason together? Are we to fixate in one or the other, or adapt to the realities of changing contingencies and let faith and reason grow and change together?
Consciousness, and its mechanisms of matter (embodiment), together adapt, change, evolve. These are not passive processes. They occur in the same agent/outcome, which has intelligence driving soul/body-spirit/matter as agent/outcome, iteratively. "Divinity" becomes intelligible in evolutionary time and process, in the "Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis" (sacrament of natural order).
We are self-reflectively part and parcel of natural sacrament, outcome/agent, the "reason" of consciousness that urges us to become more Godlike. I have no quarrel with the belief "that there is one Supreme Being who created us and love (sic) us more than we can ever know and appreciate." I don't see how evolution has a problem with this belief either. My sense is that God does not interevene evolution outside its agency/outcome iteration.

reply to this comment

Ron Hall Jan 13, 2006, 2:56pm UTC

Sylvester, you'll get more feedback if you speak English. I can't even tell whether you believe in this "ID" or not. For me, I am suspicious of the idea of a great designer, because all concrete examples I see of design are done by life forms (humans, ants, termites, beavers, etc.). I don't see any design outside the living aspects the physical universe. If I were inclined to think a god shared our flaw of being offended, I'd steer clear of calling any human attributes like design or creativity godly. These are just mental tools we use to find food.

reply to this comment

Sylvester Steffen Jan 15, 2006, 2:34am UTC

Thanks Ron and Jon. (Intelligent Design, Survival of Life). It is rational and not heretical to admit that much of reality is beyond human knowing, for example, what existence, intelligent or other, was/is prior to the beginning expansion of the cosmos. Am I ambivalent in my understanding of intelligent design? Yes. Can human rationality have certitude in the matter of pre-existence outside of human experience? To say yes is to presume to understand "God". The word God is a word covering pre-existence also outside of human knowing and experience. Evolutionary consciousness reveals "divine" insights cumulatively, a bit at a time. The updating and retelling of the human story over time reflects evolutionary change in design and intelligence. It is foolhearty to fix consciousness in perspectives acquired in childhood and youth. I admit I'm a product of esoteric culture during a critical time of my life, ages 13-24. During these eleven years I lived in religious community with men preparing to become Catholic priests. My thought preocesses and writing style reflect my idiosyncratic culture. To modern culture my thought and words are foreign and (seemingly!?) unintelligible, but may I suggest not without content of value. For my obscurantism and for the heroic effort it takes to translate me, I apologize. But, I make no excuse or apology for the consciousness I possess uniquely. It's a big world; none of us is totally tuned to the whole spectrum of communication going on at all times. Personal edification is a walled structure, but the more open we are, the broader our communication and the greater our learning potential. Instead of closing doors of personal judgment against the "lesser" insights of others, we do well to open ourselves even to them. We could do worse than to make it our life quest to seek understanding of intelligent design as the ongoing means and end of our personally evolving authenticity, consciousness.

reply to this comment

Ron Hall Jan 17, 2006, 11:40am UTC

That comment you just made was pretty clear actually, to me anyway. I'm assuming there is an audience you have in mind, and I encourage you to think about where they would "hang out" on Gather. "Evolution" is a very good category for your posting, and Gather allows you to add a second category when posting. Maybe there is some area of spirituality you could add as a subject, where you would be exposing your ideas to more persons who are familiar with the religious/philosophical terminology you use in your original post. If you're looking for a broader audience, you could do whole posts explaining each of the more obscure terms you use.

reply to this comment

What is Intelligent Design (ID)?

Comments: 4

Join the Conversation