The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer - any challenges?

[Cyrus]

jporter wrote:

> Religion and Science are obviously both cultural artifacts. The meta-
> question would be- what is the ultimate source of such artifacts- are
> they spontaneous inspirations, or do they flow from some "higher"
> intelligence? Any explanation based on a "higher intelligence"
> is immediately confronted with questions about free will, good
> and evil, sacred and profane, etc. Explanations for the ultimate
> source of cultural artifacts based on randomness or chance avoid
> that dilemma, but leave open the whole question of what is ethical
> behavior, and what is not, and why.


Maybe I'm missing something here, but ... are you equating morality to 
religion?

Cyrus