I Believe The Evidence Strongly Supports Common

The Question Is: Exactly How Did Life Get Here? Was It By Natural Selection And Random Mutation Or Was It By Something Else? Everybody - Even Richard Dawkins - Sees Design In Biology. You See This Design When You See Co-ordinated Parts Coming Together To Perform A Function - Like In A Hand. And So It's The Appearance Of Design That Everybody's Trying To Explain. So That If Darwin's Theory Doesn't Explain It We're Left With No Other Explanation Than Maybe It Really Was Designed. That's Essentially The Design Argument.

As Can Be Seen Even By This Limited Number Of Examples Proteins Carry Out Amazingly Diverse Functions.

For Example, Both Humans And Chimps Have A Broken Copy Of A Gene That In Other Mammals Helps Make Vitamin C. ... It's Hard To Imagine How There Could Be Stronger Evidence For Common Ancestry Of Chimps And Humans. ... Despite Some Remaining Puzzles, There's No Reason To Doubt That Darwin Had This Point Right, That All Creatures On Earth Are Biological Relatives.

The Conclusion Of Intelligent Design Flows Naturally From The Data Itself - Not From Sacred Books Or Sectarian Beliefs. Inferring That Biochemical Systems Were Designed By An Intelligent Agent Is A Humdrum Process That Requires No New Principles Of Logic Or Science. It Comes Simply From The Hard Work That Biochemistry Has Done Over The Past Forty Years, Combined With Consideration Of The Way In Which We Reach Conclusions Of Design Every Day.

Many People, Including Many Important And Well-respected Scientists, Just Don't Want There To Be Anything Beyond Nature. They Don't Want A Supernatural Being To Affect Nature.