God is responsible for the creation of humanity.

Evolution is quite haphazard, as anybody with a hip or a lower back can attest; these parts of one's body are generally better evolved for quadrupedal animals. However, there is also a gradual trend as far as intelligent life goes. It is true that human-style intelligence seems rare, but intelligence in organisms seems to be quite common and trends toward the more intelligent over the less intelligent. * Dolphins are one of the smartest organisms around they appear to have a complex language syntax and can relay messages between individuals of a pod. When a beacon was placed to make an odd noise as a pod was swimming by, one of the dolphins broke off from the group, looked at the beacon, made a number of clicks and howls and returned to the group. Later when another beacon was put close to the pod, no individual bothered to investigate. * Crows are quite intelligent and use human and human devices to their own ends. http://www.youtube.com... * Octopuses can open jars. http://www.nbc30.com... * Chimps use tools such as a straw to gather ants to eat. * Deer commonly hang out near the cities because predators of deer avoid people and people don't hurt deer. They commonly can use the turnstiles and often cross the street at the crosswalk where humans are seen to cross. * Moose populations are also moving closer to roads while giving birth in order to protect their young from predators. Humans are special insofar as we have amazingly complex tool usage, language, and cooking (more important than you'd think). The first two, however, are amazingly closely linked and allow us the rather amazing ability not only solve problems through the use of tools but also convey these solutions to other humans. This may seem an amazingly large step but it isn't. It is the product of several minor haphazard steps. -- Life itself might be tremendous fortune, but we don't actually know what the bounds needed for life are. Life may actually be quite common in the universe. There's every reason to suppose it is just happenstance. If not here, somewhere else. It is no more amazing that we have evolved on a world where our evolution is likely than it is amazing that every lottery winner not only lived in a state which offered lottery but bought a ticket, not just the million dollar winners but even the five dollar winners. -- The problem with this "solution" to these amazing "accidents" is that it isn't a solution at all. You offer that a great intelligence must have created our intelligence because intelligence seems a rare trait. If this were true, then where did this intelligence creating intelligence come from? A greater intelligence? And where did that one come from? An even greater intelligence? The problem with this is it doesn't solve anything. You don't solve intelligence by positing intelligence. The solution for what intelligence is and why intelligence is must be built from the bottom upwards. It cannot be supported by the unsupported. Intelligence is not a solution to the problem of intelligence. Evolution however, builds gradually from the bottom and leads to slight improvement after slight improvement easily able to result in human intelligence as we see it today. -- Another problem you seem to overlook is the haphazard nature of intelligence itself. It isn't that good. It isn't that robust. Our intelligence is often flawed, even when filtered through robust understandings of logic and vetting our ideas through the lens of science, we still make mistakes. Our intelligence isn't divinely given, it's far closer our poorly evolved lower backs, hips, knees than we'd like to think. Our intelligence, like evolution, is haphazard. ------ The problems with your argument are thusly stated: * Intelligence is a popular evolutionary trend, humans are just special in a tool use and language. Other animals like mice can solve mazes and even make causal inferences. Dolphins, Crows, Octopuses also demonstrate varying degrees. * Life isn't fortunate. * The problem of intelligence cannot be solved by proposing intelligence. * Even if you were to somehow reach the conclusion of intelligence, you cannot as the topic requires demonstrate that that intelligence is God. For example, the Raelians believe that human life was created by a race of aliens. There are no objections raised to that possibility in your argument and yet it would result in failure of the topic. * Intelligence is far from perfect. Our intelligence is as screwed up and haphazard as the things which evolution produces. * You have given us no reason to conclude that God exists or is an acceptable conclusion to anything. Is there any independent evidence or are you grabbing a mythological figure out of a hat and contending it solves the problem? Couldn't I simply contend that goblins are responsible for intelligence? * Your argument is depending on the fallacy of lack of imagination. You say that God must have done it because you don't see how evolution did it. * Your argument is rests on a very dubious claim. X is rare. Therefore X must be caused by Y. Why can't X just be rare? ---- I commend you for your argument. I've seen you argue elsewhere and I must say you were quite impressive. You steamrolled over your opponent quite adeptly; I am not they. You are wrong here and pretending that there aren't gaping holes in your argument won't save you. The rarity of humanity, as well as the rarity of intelligence suggest nothing of a greater intelligence to create our intelligence. That doesn't solve the problem at hand, it replaces the problem with a larger problem. And finally, there's no path from intelligence to God as required by the topic. I await your reply. I'm quite certain it will be remarkably good. I only hope that my closing is equally as demolishing to that argument as this round was to your opening.