IQ Tests: A Viable Standard of Intelligence?

**Oghuz** · 05-23-2019, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Aldaris

I'd say it the other way around - life is chemistry.

Fair enough but it is the type of science without which we would get no medicine, fuel, food, material etc.

**Aldaris** · 05-23-2019, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by meson

Fair enough but it is the type of science without which we would get no medicine, fuel, food, material etc.

Indeed. I was being more literal - all the organisms, including humans, are ultimately nothing more than bags of chemicals. Creationist strawman is a correct notion in a way.

**Oghuz** · 05-23-2019, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Aldaris

Indeed. I was being more literal - all the organisms, including humans, are ultimately nothing more than bags of chemicals. Creationist strawman is a correct notion in a way.

What is fascinating about chemistry is that it can play with your personality on how you perceive everything.

It made me understand that there is so much symmetry and order even in the basic most particles inside atom that nothing in this universe is random. It is like we are designed with constraints because our very basic constituent operates under constraints (quantized states of energy). With growing age, it made me believe that this whole system is designed by someone or something because such level order in extreme details can not get created randomly. An electron revolves in an orbital and overlaps with another orbital, exponential times and this thing happens in universe and it never fails despite the hundreds of variables that it needs to fulfill to make that overlap happen. We breathe, reproduce, move etc all because of these orbital overlaps and it succeeds each time. Basic most essence of life is standing on these constraints. Can we imagine with our technology that we can design such foolproof systems at that detailed level ....