So then if an intelligence created the conditions for the big bang and then set it going, and the big banged universe proceeded mechanistically without intelligent intervention, and part of that proceeding was evolution, and (among other things) what came from evolution was our intelligence, then we would say that “intelligent design” is the wrong hypothesis for explaining evolution. Even if the original intelligence creating the conditions for the big bang had as a requirement for its design of the pre-big-bang conditions that the big banged universe would lead to the spontaneous development of intelligence.
then we would say that “intelligent design” is the wrong hypothesis for explaining evolution.
Yes, this is clearly not what “intelligent design” means. Even if you accept a version of the strong anthropic principle, in that “physical laws and/or initial conditions at the Big Bang are expressly constrained so as to promote the development of human-like intelligence”, this is not at all the same as positing that evolutionary dynamics are irrelevant. In fact, such a difference could even affect your stance about physical laws more generally; for instance, if it turns out that evolution does not matter after all, this makes the Boltzmann brain paradox that much stronger, which in turns introduces other requirements, and so on.
So then if an intelligence created the conditions for the big bang and then set it going, and the big banged universe proceeded mechanistically without intelligent intervention, and part of that proceeding was evolution, and (among other things) what came from evolution was our intelligence, then we would say that “intelligent design” is the wrong hypothesis for explaining evolution. Even if the original intelligence creating the conditions for the big bang had as a requirement for its design of the pre-big-bang conditions that the big banged universe would lead to the spontaneous development of intelligence.
That makes sense and is a reasonable distinction.
Yes, this is clearly not what “intelligent design” means. Even if you accept a version of the strong anthropic principle, in that “physical laws and/or initial conditions at the Big Bang are expressly constrained so as to promote the development of human-like intelligence”, this is not at all the same as positing that evolutionary dynamics are irrelevant. In fact, such a difference could even affect your stance about physical laws more generally; for instance, if it turns out that evolution does not matter after all, this makes the Boltzmann brain paradox that much stronger, which in turns introduces other requirements, and so on.