I'd rather wait for sir docelmo's answer to my question.
Hahaha. took me awhile(tinulugan ko muna) to digest and form my reply to your challenging questions
Let’s talk of evidence of design first on a smaller readily understandable context before going to the question of “evidence of design in the universe”.
There is in fact evidence of design…Let me cite some examples, when we see mathematical equations written on a blackboard, when a see a Ferrari 459, when see an Iphone6, when you dissect a frog, shark, cat and man….
The first 3 examples are types of man-made designs. The equations written in the board automatically is attributed to its author unless you believe that equations wrote themselves or they happen by chance. When It comes to the Ferrari and Iphone6 we immediately appreciate the design, function and aesthetic qualities of these two. All those things, contain information, order, precision….these qualities necessitates the presence of intelligence. They are self-evident and please don’t say that I cannot use this to illustrate my point.
Now the last four examples; Btw I have dissected all of those….all these showed organization and order in their body parts. We see the systems; respiratory, circulatory, musculo-skeletal……these systems all working together to make the animal alive and kicking(well not anymore). If natural selection and random chance are the “only” processes that will govern the development of these systems….then these animals would not even exist! If you don’t have the lungs and heart and arteries and veins to carry blood(just two systems) working in synch you will not have oxygen and in 4 minutes you die! How long do you think mammals evolved from fish? If you believe this event happen by random chance, then How long will the Gills (which gets the dissolved oxygen from water) have to evolve to the lungs which gets oxygen from air? Imagine a transitional animal w/ neither of these two parts…will this animal survive?
If the frog needed to evolve millions of years its reproductive system to suit its environment there would be no frog. If the shark needed to evolve…oh wait sharks hardly “evolve” for 450 million years…
Let’s go to the big picture….just like the writing on the school blackboard…..the numbers themselves is the “writing” on the universal blackboard!
The quantities and constants were “discovered” by scientists studying astronomy and other associated disciplines they are real and not a product of some wild imagination by some ID/creationist to “fit” his belief. The fact these numbers and degree of precision even exist is a strong indication of design rather than chance. So the “evidence” is the presence of these numbers themselves that these couldn’t have come by chance.
When man launches rockets, satellites to rendezvous w/ the moon, comets….this requires thousands of hours of mathematical calculations to design and build the satellite and have it land on the moon or comet! The calculations are based on the calculated movement of the moon and comets! And you want us to believe a satellite definitely requires precise numbers, while the universe happens to have these numbers by chance…….in both cases the best explanation is design….and design needs a designer!
I am not arguing here based on faith (presence of God) because we have no observable tools for that, what I am invoking is the presence of Intelligence. Precision and order are products of a mind/intelligence….not some random chance. Unless you believe otherwise
ID is essentially a theory of design detection and propose that Intelligence as a mechanism causing biological change. The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
From Steve Renner: ID is based upon the Scientific Method and not blind faith
The four-step approach to the scientific method can be applied to ID
Observation: Intelligent agents produce complex and specified information (CSI).
Hypothesis: If a natural object is designed, then it will contain high levels of CSI
Experiments: Testable form of CSI is irreducible complexity by reverse engineering structures through genetic knockout experiments to determine if they require all their parts to function,
Conclusion: if CSI is found then it’s designed.
In a broadest sense ID is the science of Design Detection.
Next point…
The emergence of life by Darwinian process of naturalistic chemical or biological evolution fails to adequately explain the origin of genetic information found in the DNA necessary to build living cell and animal plans. ID in my opinion best explains the presence of information encoded in the DNA, evolution simply cannot account for the presence of this information.
The Cambrian explosion where many of the animal phyla emerged like “blink of an eye” in geological time is also explosion of new information. This time period on earth’s history runs counter the “gradual slight modifications of animals” predicted by the Darwinian processes of random chance and natural selection producing millions upon millions of transitional animals in between the well-established animal phyla.
ID does not dispute for lack of a better word “evolution” defined as “change through time” or even common ancestry what is disputed is the Darwinian naturalistic, undirected random chance to produce all the complexities of life.
Therefore no animal will pop out thin as you so keenly observed…..no transitional animals(as seen in fossils), animals comes out fully-formed(as seen in fossils again), only the infusion of enormous amount of information in the DNA can account for this and is most plausible explanation of emergence of new body plans!
