Early Writings — Page 72
72 THE the skill of an intelligent creator. It would be extremely biased and close-minded for someone to accept on the one hand that a certain creation possesses characteristics of intelligent design, yet reject the fact that an intelligent designer created it. There is always a difference between the actions of an intelligent creator and the unintelligent. Moreover, if any creation shows within it signs of a creator who demonstrates a conscious consideration of his own objectives and whose action does not appear useless, then sound reason lends evidence of the fact that the creation in ques- tion springs forth from the action of an intelligent creator. For example if there was an ink spill on a piece of paper, it is possible that the ink could have been spilled by a particular person, or a mouse, or even by itself as chance. However, if the text of a book were written on the piece of people conveying some important meaning, no wise person would say that this text was written all by itself without the action of a scribe. Taking this further, even if the letters on the paper were so different in appearance that we had never seen such letters before, but when it is established that these too are letters of some sort, and the text continues for hun- dreds of pages, even if we had not seen the scribe ourselves and even if we had not seen such unique letters before, there would be no doubt in the fact that these letters were the creation of some scribe. You see, for example, if all of heaven and earth had been like a small room, you would definitely observe its extreme beauty in entirety and say that some wise individual had created it. Now, one ought to reflect that when even a small room cannot be built without the agency of a builder how can the entire realm of heaven and earth be without a creator?