Chance or Intelligence?
An activity about God
Age: 8 and over
What we will need
- a blackboard or a whiteboard.
- a jigsaw puzzle (an easy one).
What we gonna do
If there are 10 or 11 years-old children, you will begin from the step 1. If the children are younger, you will begin from the step 2.
- To warm-up start playing a hang man game with the phrase: "There is no intelligent chance" (See Spirits' Book, question 8).
- Show a box with a jigsaw puzzle inside and ask: "Do you think that if I shake this box and throw it on the floor, the puzzle will fall with the picture ready only for chance?"
- Throw the pieces of the puzzle on the floor. Call some student who wants to try and do the path 2 again.
- Invite some students who want to complete the puzzle. When it is ready, ask: "How did you do it? What did you need to do it: observation, strategy, memory?" - then say that observation, strategy, and memory exist because of the intelligence. The chance cannot be intelligent, it is necessary to be intelligent to complete a puzzle. Ask: "Is it right? Do you agree?".
- Ask what other things that need to be perform with intelligence.
- Ask questions like: "What about the Universe? Is it chance or a creation of an intelligent agent?"
- Go on with the debate…
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