Intelligent Design

[God of Mr. Hanky]

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.

I think that you simply need to deny the design at every turn, and the qualities in nature and life that look like a designed product. It looks designed. Why can't I settle for it happened well enough to do what it does? Because what it does is unbelievably complex and it couldn't just happen. It isn't a lack of understanding the theory of evolution.

That is exactly what you don't understand. Perhaps you never took a good look at the history of life history, as paleobiologists understand it, but from what they can see they believe our planet's 4.5 billion year history is quite more than enough time for life to evolve and become just as it is.

It is one of the most basic concepts. I simply don't think it explains the complexity we find on the microscopic level in life. I could easily say that you don't accept intelligent design because you don't understand the structures and the way life functions, but I doubt that would sit well with you. Take a genetics course with the question of design vs. evolution in mind, then tell me you think neo-Darwinian evolution explains it well enough to satisfy your questions.

You say you are a student in your field now, and most of your elders there disagree. You need to listen to them more, and opinionate less.