Detecting design or intent in nature

[Chas]

Your argument reduces to everything you observe that was created by people was created by an intellect.

Can you show me an observation of an evolutionary system coming into existence that did not involve intellect? That is all that I am asking for someone to do. Should be simple enough if evolutionary systems come into existence without the involvement of intellects as you claim.

At least my claim is based on observation while your is based on whimsical thinking.

You cannot demonstrate that the evolution of life on earth required an intellect. There is no mechanism in the Theory of Evolution that requires an intellect.

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Moreover, as Coyne also states, "we never see adaptations that benefit the species at the expense of the individual---

What am I missing here.
Whatever happened to explaining altruism via kin selection?
Seems to me that any benefit to the kin at the expense of the adapted individual qualifies as a counter example here even if the benefit to the species via benefit to the kin is small.

Kin selection is just gene selection. Evolution happens at the gene level, not the organism level.