To the editor:

If we’re the only intelligence in the universe, why does the universe seem to be so much smarter than us?

A 5-year-old is smart enough to draw a stick person. The genius of da Vinci could paint and sculpt amazing, anatomically correct human likenesses. But do you know anyone intelligent enough to take two cells, join them together and, in nine months, build them into 100 trillion cells? Synchronized into 11 fully functioning, independent systems, crowned with a brain infinitely more complex than the most advanced supercomputer? Sure, we can exploit this amazing process (immorally), but there’s no way we could do it on our own. What kind of intelligence could come up with this? We sure didn’t.

Where there’s order, there’s a design. The more complex the design, the more intelligent the designer. This is the Teleological Argument of the Greeks, who figured it out several centuries before Christ (just one of the many deductions of pagans that the church recognized as truth and adopted).

You can tell the intellectual capabilities of a little kid and of da Vinci by looking at their creations. Who is powerful enough to create a universe so infinitely large that it has no edge, yet so ordered that we haven’t yet figured out the complexities of its tiniest part? Could we, the greatest intelligence in the universe? If we didn’t, and God didn’t, who did? Nothing comes from nothing.

Sarah Heschmeyer,

Eudora