Is "discourse of the mind" evidence of design?

[Mudhammam]

Let's approach this another way? What seems useful about conceptualizing nature as designed, or a designer - even it it can't really be said to be accurate? Are you writing a poem or trying to understand biology?

Nah, just thinking aloud, perhaps trying to fill in the large gaps that seem to exist in opposing philosophies and methodologies. I'm not really sure if there's an immediate application for viewing nature designed as such, except in backwards engineering the functions of body parts, but who knows? Perhaps the presumption that life is the necessary result of a type of design, borne by certain cosmic forces, could be helpful in formulating a theory of life origins. That's all beyond me.