Manus, The dragon as well as the god, are both possibilities if you can't prove them wrong. Sure, it'd be pretty weird if it the magical dragon was there ... I'd be surprized for one, but you can't rule them out, because that's Illogical. You can add probabilities though, which is hard to determine, but I do think (yes think, you don't have the choice to not have an opinion when judging something uncertain) that the dragon is less likely than god. Why criteria? It sounds like just judging and making assumptions, which we already do.. we don't need to rule something out when it's still a possibility; you just don't have to deal with it if you don't think it's likely and don't want to. People who do want to shouldn't be judged so harshly for checking out a possibility. Scientists go on hunches often. It's just a shame that ID scientists are looked down upon so much by the others.
As for the snail. It doesn't really matter because we don't know if the snail has conciousness or not, regardless of if it's more complex than a computer or not. And actually that was my point, computer AI is not just inferior to animals and humans, but you can't replicate conciousness,experience, and free will, no matter how many thousands of years you'd stay there programming it. I'm saying interpretation and experience are not comparable, and it's impossible for something to experience based on cause & effect (action reaction), you need something more.
