Intelligent Design

[God of Mr. Hanky]

If everything is designed, how can you tell if something is not designed?

I didn't say everything is designed. I'm talking about the cell, and life in general. You can tell if something is not designed, if it doesn't either accomplish a purpose, have symmetry, have a known history of being designed, have a specific arrangement of characters that gives it functionality. I would say that we can intuitively tell the difference between something that was designed and something that wasn't, but I feel like you would have a problem with that.

I think you simply need to believe there was a design, despite having no blueprints which you can show us as evidence

Seriously, for a human, the most habitat-manipulating and designing species on the planet to make such a jump is at best an arrogant attempt to re-establish nature in his own image. So why can't you just settle for "life happened well enough to do what it does?" To go beyond this with all the unknowns cannot be true science at all! "It happened" doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't designed, but to insist that it was or to say that it appears that way just because you don't understand evolutionary theory, this is just too much.