Can you be an atheist and an I.D. advocate together?

[robvalue]

Well, if this is a computer simulation, then that would lead to the possibility of design. And unless you want to call a computer and its programmer a god, then you could still be an atheist and believe this.

Or I could believe that, like you say, an alien designed us and then planted us on this planet. Or I have an invisible friend who designed us. Or that people design themselves before they are born in another dimension.

So in theory, there's nothing stopping you being an atheist and believing in design. I'm not too fond of calling it intelligent design, because we are not designed intelligently. We're a terrible design full of mistakes that any decent designer wouldn't have made, which also happens to be just what you'd expect from evolution. So maybe we do design ourselves, and are copying a flawed blueprint because we don't have anything else to go by. That makes the most sense. If it was an alien, he's having a damn laugh at our expense.