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If by this, do you mean that the universe was created by intention rather unintentionally, then I would say unintentionally. If one says that the universe was created by intention, then we haven’t really ‘solved’ the problem of how the universe came to be (if that fact requires explanation is another issue). If we say the universe was created, then we have simply pushed back the problem one more step: if the universe had a creator, who created the creator. If that is a fair question to ask of the universe, it is just as fair when applied to the alleged creator.
Positing an intelligent (or even an unintelligent) creator resolves nothing, it only pushes back the problem another step without resolving the question that started the inquiry. But more fundamentally, it assumes something about the universe *(which for me means literally, ‘all that which is’).
If the universe is ‘all that which is’, then there is no place outside of the universe to seek an explanation for that which is within its bounds. If the universe refers to everything, then it is everything, and there is no place else to retreat for explanations. That would be the metaphysical issue.
Then there is the epistemological issue. When we explain something, anything, in fact, we explain one thing in terms of another. When we attempt to explain mankind, in science, we reach to the earlier primates from which we evolved to search for explanation; then we look to the changes in our mitochondrial DNA, and to the biological markers in our DNA that show our biological history. We can even reference ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, wherein the embryo goes through its phylogenetic history during ontogeny - including developing such things as pharyngeal gill slits.
What we look for are explanations within the universe of things. To explain the tigon or the liger, we must understand the lion and the tiger in order to comprehend the origin of their offspring. In other words, explanations are drawn from within the universe and not from beyond it - an imaginary realm of which we have no evidence. There is nothing we can know beyond the bounds of the universe because we have no means of knowing it.
When early human beings looked for explanations of things in the universe, they first looked to themselves and saw that the creator of the table was the carpenter, and that a key element of that creation was the carpenter’s intention to create it. When our ancestor’s looked at the arrow, and asked from whence it came, they would say, why, the intention of the fletcher. So when they looked at the sky or the sea, or the earth, and asked from whence it came, they assumed a creator and an assumed that everything that existed must be created. But as our ancestors, such as Aristotle began to explore the universe scientifically, they began to learn that not everything came about because of intentional acts.
But to see intentionality in things is natural for children, because from the earliest moments they see connections between their behavior and things happening. For instance, their cries bring mother with food, or to rub a bellyache, or to grant comfort, or to change their perceptual vista. As they get a little older, they begin to notice that the movement of their leg or arm can move another object, and they connect their motion to the motion of the thing moved. Children are identifying causation from the earliest moments of life. But they view themselves as the prime mover - it is their movements and their cries that cause changes in the world. It is later that the child learns that not everything is explained by his actions - which is about the time that temper tantrums begin in earnest. For some people those tantrums last a lifetime of requiring other people to bail them out when they screw up.
Answer (1 of 6): If by this, do you mean that the universe was created by intention rather unintentionally, then I would say unintentionally. If one says that the universe was created by intention, then we haven’t really ‘solved’ the problem of how the universe came to be (if that fact requires e...
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