God and Us : the essential difference

There is nothing to become so astonished by the level of sophistication and inherent intelligence in the design and expression of nature. The reason is simple: nature is intelligent naturally. The sentence seems very vague at the first look. But, I will ask you to give a little deeper thought into it.

Look, when we call something intelligent, or praise something for its inherent design, we mainly focus on how well that fits to the environment, and how well that correlates to the surroundings. Now, for a natural object, (anything from a dead rock, a tree to a living being) it bounds to mix well with the nature. This is a must because nature has created it from the scratch following her own style of designing.

What Nature represents is not absolute intelligence and probably there is nothing that could be seen as absolute intelligence. Because, the very way nature shapes the universe is how intelligence is being defined. And this is also our way of interpreting intelligence. As such, to term some natural phenomena as intelligently played is not informative at all.

This implies that if nature would have created things differently, a different set of actions and designs would have been seen as intelligent. The crux is anything nature creates and any fashion she employs, it will always be the most logical and efficient system an agent could find in its world.

Suppose for example, many of us take great surprise in the efficient design of our own physique. We think only a very intelligent being could have made such a sophisticated, well-suited well-organized creation. But, stop! Think again! Human body was built not in a single day, but in a continuous natural fashion. It is developed following all the natural rules and ingredients. It still is being constantly developed and changed. And thus, when it looks as something as it is now, it is certain to react efficiently with the nature, after all nature has created it! When you draw something arbitrarily you need not care about the shape, because it’s always the right shape whether or not it conforms to something else. But after you finish the drawing and give it a special name, others will find it that much hard reproducing it in the same fashion as you did. And every scratch of your paint-brush would then seem carefully and thoughtfully delivered.

So, I think thought is not the beginning of creation. It rather is a quality of something that is created, like us, human being! God need not think! He needs to create! It is us, who are to ponder!!