Showed up after the thread closed but I did want to attempt a relevant comment. But before I do, isn't the existence of George W. Bush definitive proof against intelligent design?

The problem with 'Intelligent Design' (formerly known as the teleological argument for God's existence) really has nothing to do evolution. It was pointed out by the great Scot, David Hume, long before the theory of evolution developed (though Hume's insight may have had a role in pushing science in the direction of evolution). Hume realized that when you are examining a single example such as the universe, it is impossible to know whether it was designed or not. The attribution of design depends on knowing what the undesigned conditions would be. Since there are no undesigned universes available to us to make the comparison, we can never know whether this universe is designed or not.

I did attend a lecture by a fairly well known proponent of intelligent design a few years ago. The lecture was presented to a college evangelical student group. It concluded with an impassioned prayer by the speaker that intelligent design would be used by God to convert the heathens in the United States.

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