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rob05c  ·  3226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Intelligent design without a creator? Why evolution may be smarter than we thought

    we assume it took intelligence to build the Pyramids – yet coral reef animals do things on even larger scales.

    Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

Marvin Minsky