Detecting design or intent in nature

[bennyboy]

I have set up only one goal post. Replication, Heritable traits, Change, and Selection. Your task is a simple one. Present an observation of a system which contains those elements, which was observed coming into existence sans intellect.

1) You still fail because you don't know what sets are.

2) To answer your question: intellect.

Intellect itself meets the criteria you have set out, as the emergence of complex thought from simple sensory elements involves all of replication, heritable traits, change and selection, at least as you've already abused those terms.

Intellect could not have been in existence when it came into existence, so the only question (at least in your goofy world) is whether it was observed. And, of course, it was-- because intellect is the organized response of an organism to its sense data, and unintellectual organisms must therefore have observed the first intellectual organisms.