When we observe something, and claim intelligent design behind it, we have to attribute it to some form of intelligence that has been established to exist. If you are in the desert and stumble upon a Volvo, you aren't going to attribute it to aliens, nor will you say that the volvo has always existed there. While that last bit seems like an argument for creationism, it isn't. You go with the most likely scenario in regards to what you know. We know humans exist, and manufacture volvos, and it is safe to assume that cars do not pop into existence. If someone could attribute the car in the desert to a diety, then anyone could make an outrageous claim with the same merit. As sensible, rational adults we must make the judgement using what we know to be true, and what is most likely. My belief that life was created by BOB, the interdimensional, all powerful toaster has the same merit as life being created by a space god with superpowers.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
