Intelligent Design

[Esquilax]

If we have archaea that live in Mars-like conditions here on earth, then why aren't there bacteria on mars.

Off the top of my head, Mars-like conditions may be sufficient for supporting pre-existing life, but not for generating life. I don't think I'm saying anything crazy if I suggest that Earth's development and Mars' were quite different.

When you look at how complicated the mechanisms that allow extremophiles to survive in these areas, it begins to look more like design (at least to me),

So, you live on a planet where, almost uniformly, every example of design you experience is continuously streamlined and simplified for ease of use and manufacturing- your Iphone has as few parts as possible, they don't add new bits and pieces to aircraft arbitrarily, technology has veered inevitably toward convergent functionality and plug-and-play simplicity of use and installation- and yet for some reason you've come to the conclusion that complexity is a hallmark of design? The entirety of human design has focused on producing designed objects easier, cheaper, with less materials, faster... how is it that you can look at the history of design on Earth, superimpose that over the complexity, redundancies and flat out poor architecture found in nature, and see any kind of similarities at all?

For that matter, how exactly did you determine that complexity isn't a hallmark of nature too? I see a lot of people pointing to complexity and saying therefore it must be designed, but they never stop to explain how they ruled out the possibility that nature can produce complex things too... and you all must have a way to do that, yes? If you've just appointed complexity as a quality of designed things then you're begging the question in a huge way to see complexity in nature and thus conclude design because you haven't demonstrated complexity as the sole domain of designed objects... which is the thrust of the argument you're making by using complexity at all.

Again, if you believe that every living thing in nature is designed, then where is your point of contrast, your "natural life," which informs you of the differences between natural and designed life, such that you can make the distinction at all?