Those who have said that a blind fate has produces all the effects that we see in the world have said a great absurdity; for what greater absurdity is there than a blind fate that could have produced intelligent beings?
-Montesquieu
We see two things in the universe: mind (intelligence that is immaterial) and body (thoughtless matter). There are but two solutions: either ultimate reality is intelligence (that is, that which does not think came from that which does think) or it is matter (in that case, all that thinks came from that which does not think).
If we accept the latter, we are forced to abandon a cardinal and basic rule of logic (that an effect cannot be greater than its cause). If we accept the former, we are forced to accept God (and thereby admit the possibility that we may have to submit our wills to one other than ourselves). In their rebellion and enslavement to their passions, most men have decided to abandon their intellectual integrity rather than give up the unhindered pursuit of their sinful passions.
Furthermore, if we admit that matter is the ultimate source of all intelligence, our minds are included in that calculus. That is, our minds are no more than random chemicals and electrons reacting. Who would trust a computer programmed by hailstones? We do not trust intelligence, unless a greater intelligence lies behind it. In rejecting an Intelligent Designer men destroy their very argument by undermining the very basis for that argument (that is, man's reason). For if man's reason is randomly programmed, then all its conclusions are unreliable, including the one that denies intelligence.
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