If you have at your disposal an intelligent being who gets to decide the laws of physics and gets to set the initial conditions, then intelligent design is an easy consequence: “God set up the universe in such a way that allowed life to evolve according to His predetermined laws”.
If we ever get enough computing power to simulate intelligent life, then those simulations will have been intelligently designed and an argument very similar to the above will be true (an intelligent person wrote a program and set the initial parameters in such a way that intelligence was simulated).
You can write a number of refutations of this argument (life sucks, problem of evil, Occam’s razor, etc.), but I’d still say it’s coherent.
If you have at your disposal an intelligent being who gets to decide the laws of physics and gets to set the initial conditions, then intelligent design is an easy consequence: “God set up the universe in such a way that allowed life to evolve according to His predetermined laws”.
If we ever get enough computing power to simulate intelligent life, then those simulations will have been intelligently designed and an argument very similar to the above will be true (an intelligent person wrote a program and set the initial parameters in such a way that intelligence was simulated).
You can write a number of refutations of this argument (life sucks, problem of evil, Occam’s razor, etc.), but I’d still say it’s coherent.