Wow dude, you make Jerry Faldwell look like a panty-waste when it comes to 'dogmatic'...lol

I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said something along the lines that an advanced science would be indiscernable from magic. So 'miraculous' and 'supernatural' are just as good a label as any.

Maybe science's complexity takes an I.Q. of 2k or greater to even begin to grasp...and we're wallowing around with a measely 200 tops? You say orchids display no intelligence or consciousness? Take a closer look! If you must have a label that a 140? human I.Q. can grasp, then label it the intelligence of 'Darwinian Natural Selection'. Like I said I think there are intelligences/consciousness that just don't fit the paradigm of what we consider intelligence because they're not like ours.

We thought we had it all figured out at one time. A few simple rules of physics with a dash of math and suns and atoms would behave just like billiard balls. In our arrogance we thought we had a handle on it all and those who could grasp the higher math sanctified themselves as the holy ones, sneering at those who couldn't. Then we discovered the subatomic and all those billiard ball physics went right out the window. Sure it can all still be calculated with some formula-some unified field theory yet to be discovered-but maybe not with what we're capable of...then possibly anything goes....like an orchid functioning with a cunning and intelligence, without a nervous system or anything we're capable of pointing to with our miniscule capacities and saying 'that is why!'
So the academics will cling to their dogma, stick their fingers in they're ears and scream No! No! No! like any creationist blindly clinging to the old testment.

You're a smart guy but you're also smug and condescending...and you're just parroting the rhetoric of a bunch of college academics. You ever notice how these guys can't come up with anything on their own until someone has the guts to jump on a wild-ass theory? C'mon, work that healthy brain of yours and give us something original! We can get a smug brow-beating anywhere. They're a dime a dozen.

Yeah, my stuff is just silly-ass musings but at least a lot of it is all mine and intuition tells me, as foolish and simplistic as it all is, that there's a good chance it isn't all totally wrong...

cheers