Intelligent Design Is A Remarkably Uncreative Theory

What Can Be More Soul Shaking Than Peering Through A 100-inch Telescope At A Distant Galaxy, Holding A 100-million-year-old Fossil Or A 500,000-year-old Stone Tool In One's Hand, Standing Before The Immense Chasm Of Space And Time That Is The Grand Canyon, Or Listening To A Scientist Who Gazed Upon The Face Of The Universe's Creation And Did Not Blink?

We Want To Be Special. We Want Our Place In The Cosmos To Be Central. We Want Evolution-even Godless Evolution-to Have Been Directed Toward Us So That We Stand At The Pinnacle Of Nature's Ladder Of Progress. Rewind The Tape Of Life And We Want To Believe That We (homo Sapiens) Would Appear Again And Again. Would We? Probably Not.

Machine Intelligence Of A Human Nature Could Be A Century Away, And Immortality Is At Least A Millennium Away, If Not Unattainable Altogether.

Providentially, Learned Habits Can Be Unlearned, Especially In The Context Of Moral Groups.

To Be A Fully Functioning Moral Agent, One Cannot Passively Accept Moral Principles Handed Down By Fiat. Moral Principles Require Moral Reasoning.