God is responsible for the creation of humanity.

I understand that you are not disputing evolution, you are making a variation of the fine-tune argument, as it pertains to biological systems. My argument was less about evolution and more about the generalized trend of evolution to properly and easily create human beings. Moreover, the anthropic principle applies, regardless of how rare humanity might be we exist. If we didn't exist something else would. Intelligence isn't remarkably rare as displayed by the swaths of different species which have intelligent as a characteristic. If you note my objections: * Intelligence is a popular evolutionary trend. * Life isn't fortunate. * The problem of intelligence cannot be solved by proposing intelligence. * You cannot conclude God. * Intelligence is imperfect (thus evolved). * God is a red herring and not established prior to being invoked. * Fallacy of lack of imagination. * X is rare does not lead to the conclusion that X didn't happen. I never suggested that you disagreed with evolution or were arguing for Genesis. You're argument is fine-tuned applied to biological system. It has the problems that the fine-tuned argument has as well as the problems of the argument from nature. If all populations were unchecked any species would overwhelm the planet in a number of generations via a Malthusian crunch. Within species, natural selection, selects the most adapted individual of a species to bred more often in this necessary fight for survival. If small genetic changes between individuals allow for changes in the organism which better adapt it to the environment than the rest of the population, that trait becomes more frequent and assists the population as a whole to adapt to its environment. Selective breeding as noted by evolutionists since Darwin (his first chapters were on selective breeding) is able to elicit massive changes in a species depending on what traits humans want and allow the possessing organisms to breed. -- If you want a larger dog, you breed your largest dogs, generations down the road you get a big dog. Nothing about my arguments prevents increased intelligence from being selected. The traits which cause the production of brains are able to be created via natural means, they could also be selected by human means. However, ultimately human intelligence isn't the product of selective pressure exerted by an intelligence, because at some point you can't explain intelligence via intelligence. Pointing out that humans can take the reigns over selection, no more proves your case than arguing for AI would prove the case. The ultimate source for intelligence needs to work from the ground up to produce intelligence such as evolution has been shown to do. Further, regardless how many steps back you go, you cannot make this leap from intelligence to God. This creating intelligence would need to have evolved or have been created by some other ground-up process. As you cannot initially posit an intelligence to explain intelligence. My point about perfection was not that our imperfections would be contrary to the theory of creation by a perfect God, rather to show you that the flaws in our intelligence are much like the flaws with our hips, lower backs, and knees which function far below optimal are indicative of the haphazard by evolution. Either that or your designing intelligence is kind of a moron. The reason bacteria cannot detect us is because they have almost no senses. Had they the number of senses we have they would be able to detect us. Just as we can detect them without microscopes. We have no tools to directly see or feel or touch bacteria... but when we become ill the experience is inescapable. Regardless of the greatness of this intelligence, I'm weary of the concept that we cannot detect it in any way. Further, the completeness of evolutionary theory would makes such a presupposition superfluous. That said, I do not see how you can meet your burden of proof to establish God and establish that God is responsible for the creation of humanity. Creation via evolution is not a difficult task at all, in fact, the task takes nothing but a replicator and time. Wasting time to make us perfect isn't the issue. Some parts of human anatomy are just badly done. For example, in the human eye we the nerves and blood which service the retina go forward toward the light rather than backwards toward the brain. As a consequence they have evolved to be as clear as possible and attach to a hole in the center of the eye. We have a blind spot, and a lot of effort and genes to make the eye function nearly as well as an eye designed by a third grader might function (with the nerves facing the correct direction like in the eye of a squid). The existence of multicellular life starting in the Precambrian era no more makes intelligent design likely than it makes it likely I would win big in Vegas. There is every reason for life to proceed towards greater intelligence. It is a rather common and useful adaptation. Some creatures get larger to protect themselves, some get faster, some get poisons, some get smarter. The divergence of nature shows that intelligence is an analogous trait across multiple species. Intelligence, like flight and venom is a common Good Trick of natural selection. With intelligence you can make causal links and understand the world and make predictions of what will happen next; this is a very useful trait and evolution a common path for evolution to take. Intelligence is just another adaptation, which is exactly as you should expect. Dolphins easy kill sharks by ramming their gills and causing them to choke. That's pretty smart and certainly gives them an upper hand. The trends towards intelligence have been remarkably consistent, it is simply that some animals, namely humans, began to specialize as far as intelligence goes. One of the best theories as to what gave us the opening to adapt in this manner is cooking. With fire and cooking, food is easier to eat and becomes far more available. Those with the better intelligence are better suited to the environment and life becomes far easier yet. Yes, something probably did kick start the massive trend toward intelligence (human brains are three times the size of chimp brains), most likely, fire. The other species you mention seem to have different evolutionary paths. Crows and dolphins appear to have developed more or less prior to major advances in human intelligence. There's nothing to conclude that they are similarly advanced at a similar time. It is certainly possible for humans to have advanced as they did. Even if we push the time of development forward or back we still arrive at a developed species. Certainly we could have developed earlier and had this discussion a million years ago, or developed later and had it next week. You are engaging in the sharp shooter fallacy. A man blindfolds himself, walks a hundred yards away, turns around and shoots the side of a barn. He then draws a bullseye right where the bullet hit. He declares that he hit the bullseye from 100 yards while blindfolded. If we didn't evolve at the exact time we did... then it could have been later or sooner or a different species. Nothing about the rarity or the perceived rarity makes humanity impossible to evolve. Further, difficulty in evolving does not require an intelligence to help it along. Further, even if there is an intelligence helping it along, it's impossible to conclude any sort of deity. You have come no where close to meeting the burden of proof. I, nor anybody else, should be convinced from your argument that God is responsible for the creation of humanity. Your argument is flawed in many ways and fails to form a logical compelling argument towards any conclusion much less the aforementioned required conclusion of this topic.