Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

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Any being with sufficient intellect can design a "set it and forget it" evolutionary system to produce what ever that being wants.

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A "set it and forget it" evolutionary system doesn't have an end goal and if an intelligent designer had homo sapiens as an end goal (which it must have since creationists conclude that humans are God's special creation),

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"set it and forget it" evolution is not the way to achieve that goal because at any point along the billions of years of "set it and forget it" evolution enough could have changed in the selection pressures that homo sapiens never would have evolved.

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Unless you're saying that this designer monkeyed with the environmental and sex-selection pressures enough to keep evolution "on track" to creating homo sapiens, but then it wouldn't be "set it and forget it" evolution, it would be guided evolution - and there's no evidence that evolution is guided by any kind of designer toward any kind of end goal.

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A "set it and forget it" scenario would imply that the environment would also be set and forgot about.... even its changes. Set to do exactly what it has done so far and will do in the future and life is a part of this environment.
We are talking about a über-being capable of setting and forgetting these ultra complex chain of events, right?


Oh, but humans screw everything with their free-will detail... forget I mentioned anything...