intentionality

The chances of Richard Dawkins being right about anything are the same as the chances of Fred Hoyle entering a junk yard and assembling a 747 Jumbo Jet from the debris.

Although he is reputedly less random than the average tornado, Hoyle couldn't do it.

Intentionality is not enough.

Knowledge is necessary but is also not enough.

Mr Hoyle will get old and die before he ever comes close to figuring out how to build and then actually building a 747 Jumbo Jet from the debris field in a junk yard.

One life time is not enough.

Since Fred Hoyle has died the chances of him visiting anywhere and building anything are substantially less than they were up to now, even if he does have a pet cat called Schrodinger.

In conceiving of creation, I am suggesting that randomness, in the form of tornados or even in the form of the unlimited (eternal) randomness fantasised about by Richard Dawkins, will not do the job.

There must be intentionality.

There must be knowledge.

Intentionality and knowledge must be embedded in an acting agent, a person.

And that person must live an awful long time.

For the creation of existence (the universe and our capacity to savour it) we must look for intentionality and knowledge embedded in a person who has unlimited time to do whatever it is he does, ie he effectively lives forever.

That is not a tornado or any known random physical process over any conceivable supposedly limitless period of time.

That is not Richard Dawkins or Fred Hoyle.

That is not the Boeing Corporation.

It's God.