The Case for Theism

[Whateverist]

I used Martin Rees as a source for three reasons. He's highly regarded, he's an atheist and I have his book. And your quite right, true to atheist form he ignores the evidence that would lead most people to conclude design and instead argues for a naturalism in the gaps explanation even though he himself admits such an idea isn't grounded on evidence and may in fact be unfalsifiable.

There is no evidence which would lead any reasonable person to conclude design if they didn't start off thinking that to begin with. Of course, there is also no evidence for no god.

Whatever exists is natural. The assumption that what we don't know will turn out to be natural is unfalsifiable because that is how we define natural.