It's so simple it's tautological.
It does sound simple the way you describe it. But I keep thinking, why did it all happen this way? Why did we happen to get such an efficient reproductive design? (strike that word). We could have been given (strike that), ended up with, an asexual reproductive mode, and then all those defective genes wouldn't be eliminated. Why do all living things evolve toward greater complexity, rather than lesser? It almost seems like there was a purpose (strike that). I can't help but think of it as a miracle (strike that), as one hell of a lucky roll of the cosmic dice.
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
Unlike creation science, intelligent design theory does not require the vast
majority of the scientific community to be in error.
Intelligent design theory is consistent with all scientific experiments.
The old age of the earth and the universe is not challenged.
Einstein's theory of relativity is correct. Radioactive dating works.
Physicists, chemists and astronomers are correct.
Common ancestry is not challenged. Evidence for descent with
modification is not challenged. The fossils indicate a continual and
gradual increase in complexity. The power of natural selection to
bring about diversity is accepted. No issue is taken with the vast
majority of the conclusions drawn by biologists, biochemists,
microbiologists and other researchers in related fields. That is
intelligent design leaves most of evolution theory intact.
Intelligent design theory does challenge the conclusion drawn by a few
scientists like Dawkins who claim that naturalistic processes fully explain
the origin and complexity of life; and as a result, there is no need for a
designer. Dawkins finds no evidence for design, because he has
never looked for it.
Scientists who look, generally find that design is the best and most logical
explanation for life's complexity. Examples include but are by no means
limited to the following authors:
Yockey in Information Theory and Molecular Biology, 1992
Thaxton, Bradley, Olsen in The Mystery of Life's Origin.
Behe in Darwin's Black Box, 1996
Denton in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1986
Spetner in Not by Chance, 1998
Dembski in The Design Inference, 1998
Overman in A Case Against Accident and Self Organization,
1997
Pullen in The Theory of Evolution, The Origin of Life and
Intelligent Design ( not yet published, 2000)
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