dhw: You continue to ignore the fact that both hypotheses are inexplicable. Your guiding hand or mind - energy always BEING aware of itself - is every bit as inexplicable as my inorganic materials BECOMING aware of themselves.-There has to be a first cause with planning ability. I view the complexity we see and are as impossible without that entity. I view your version of evolving intelligence as totally impossible. From your words, it just happens, no impetus. I see only force and direction, which must have a source.