Freewill
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Intelligent design is just an argument for the existence of God that attempts to prove God exists by arguing that other things, such as living organisms, could not exist without having been created by God...
...since those things do in fact exist, then God must exist.
It's an attempt to attach scientific credibility to an article of faith.
Actually, no. The discussion begins with the complexity of life and how it could become so complex. If left to nature things tend to break down, to be come simpler not more complex.
Your computer works on binary, your DNA is four times as complex. Now I suppose that even with the billion to one chance of the brain was created out of nothing with enough time I suppose anything could happen. But that would only lead to the logical conclusion that there was actually a plan, if you will, to the creation of life. In other words an end game that was programmed from the beginning. Nothing else makes a whole lot of sense to me. Why would the simplest of organisms grow into larger organisms? What mechanism would drive such a thing? And if it does happen why don't we see it today? Why, after 100 years of driving, are deer still too stupid to cross a road without being smashed to bits?
Yes, maybe finches learn to adapt to different habitats. Those who become isolated and their food supply is different then it was develop different traits to survive. That especially points to intelligent design. The birds adapt but remain birds.