Intelligent Design

[robvalue]

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying I don't feel your conclusion is supported. I appreciate the open mindedness. I don't claim to have any answers at all.

It seems to me that you're using a tautology. If some kind of reality exists and functions, then you would say it is designed. So it seems impossible, with this definition, that a reality could exist and function without being designed.

The obvious counter-example explanation is that things are just the way they are, and our inquisitive minds are over-complicating things by assigning agency everywhere when unwarranted. I'm not saying this is the case, but I'm saying it's not easily discounted. We can ask "why" until we're blue in the face, but if no answer will ever satisfy us except some sort of process or agency, then we are begging the question.