Intelligent Design

[Old Baby]

I also think that, for a number of these types of questions, the HOW and the WHY are the same thing.

HOW does the rock fall? - Gravity
WHY does the rock fall? - Gravity

No actually. It's very different.
The HOW is essentially asking what happens when a rock falls. The WHY however is asking why it is the way it is.
Two different things.
Since we can only study what is happening around us we can only give an answer for HOW, the WHY is left unanswered, because we have nothing to make observations out of, or maybe perhaps people don't realize there is a why because "but they didn't teach that in our school"
However I noticed that the why in the question of why H20 forms water and the why in the question of why 1 + 2 =3 had a very good correlation and followed a good identical pattern. I know the number system is just a number system and nothing more, I know we aren't god, I used that example so that people can better grasp what I was getting across. If you consider the number system and humans the number system is basically that something humans created, we thought up of it and then we implemented it. And when you consider the why of the why is 1 + 2 = 3 in the number system the answer would be that it is because of the way we designed the addition operation and number system. For example, if we had designed the operation addition as x + y = xy then we'd have 1 + 2 = 2, why do we get 2? Because of how we had designed the operation. Since intelligent beings designed it, it is a product of intelligent design. It's the same thing with my example of water, almost identical to the example I gave above, only thing is we knew who designed the number system, we don't know who designed the rules of our universe..

I'm still confused on why we even need to ask "Why?"  WHY implies intent or purpose.  It presupposes intelligence.  It's word games, not evidence, not even an argument.  Before anyone is going to worry about the "Why?" question, you have to show that it's relevant.  It's like asking, "Why are the chip crumbs always at the bottom of the sack?"  Asking "How?" or "Why=How?" are reasonable questions, but why would anyone assume that there's purpose behind the crumbs going to the bottom of the sack?  No one is going to consider asking or answering that question unless it can be shown that there's actually a good reason to believe there is a purpose behind the crumbs going to the bottom.