ABSTRACT

Driving down a road in South Dakota, a foreign visitor to the United States might come upon the odd mountain formation pictured in Figure 51.1. Even though he had never seen nor heard of Mount Rushmore, it would not cross his mind to imagine that wind, erosion, earthquake, or some other wholly unintelligent process forged the remarkable likenesses to human visages (even if he didn’t recognize them as American presidents). Rather, he would immediately grasp that someone sculpted the faces on the mountain. Somehow he knows that the images were intelligently designed by a conscious agent.