Intelligent Design

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I'll give AAT one last shot at the grand prize before I give up on him entirely.

Here is my question.

What does any of this matter? Why should we care if we are designed are not, from a practical point of view?

Surely you must think there is some payoff if you're prepared to jettison the scientific method over this one topic while claiming to be a science student.

I already answered this when someone else asked it. I think believing it was designed makes better predictions. For example, we would expect that organisms would need most of their DNA, which has turned out to be true despite what you've heard about junk DNA, retroviral DNA, or pseudogenes. They almost didn't sequence the regions of the human genome they thought to be junk due to their evolutionary presuppositions, which would have been a big mistake. We would also be more likely to look to the mechanisms at place in the cell to help us learn how to improve in our engineering skills. We would realize the harm of mutation, and we would be less likely to fill ourselves with carcinogenic chemicals. If we approach science from the point of view that we were designed, we will have a higher respect for ourselves, and will be more likely to turn to the cell to help us advance in our ability to write computer codes and stuff.