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You people are soooo three dimensional. The cat remains in its prior state until observation, even if this means that the change happens in the past as a result of a present action. The time dimension has two directions: past and future. We don't usually think of changing the past, but it happens constantly in what might be referred to as quantum retro-causality. When we pair this with our knowledge of the observer effect, it makes sense that observation itself is what determines which of a matrix of possible outcomes is actualized and that this trumps the prevailing feeling of travel towards a future direction within time. When we expand our definition of reality to include higher dimensions, by analogy, we might visualize how a thread poking through a piece of paper can rotate clockwise, and that when split, both pieces of the string will continue to rotate in complementary directions, no matter how far they are separated on the paper, just as "spooky action at a distance" is due to the manipulation of items originating in and stationary in relation to a higher fifth dimension. The same holds true for the cat. Because our "cogito" is of extra-dimensional origin, its observations will supersede the prevailing tendancy of objects in our fourth dimension to follow a Newtonian model of order.

As intellectually honest people, we must ask ourselves simply: where are the transitionary forms in the fossil record? Not one example of an unsuccessful transitionary form, the basis for evolutionary mutation theory, has ever been documented in the fossil record or elsewhere on Earth. The fact is that Darwinian Evolutionism is a philosophy, not a science, and no matter how many scientists one throws at it, one will never produce a shred of empirical evidence to prove it. I would wager all of my popsci PPX on it. Furthermore, has anyone found an objective study on the weight of the theory, one not tainted by theological considerations or grant money or tenure? My point is that to dismiss intelligent design solely on the presupposition of either the mutual exclusivity or infallibility of a shaky bit of 18th century whimsical fantasy would sell short both the profoundly complex nature of the universe that defies logic and the definitions of reality in an increasingly "spooky" physical universe. Ari