Intelligent Design

by Kerri & Kimmi

Can one correctly ever infer design? Must we witness something being designed to know that it was in. fact designed? The answers are "yes" to the first question and "no" to the second. Do not archaeologists constantly infer design in ancient artifacts without having witnessed the designing taking place? For example, archaeologists have found pieces of clay with scratchings on them. Were these marks made randomly by marsh reeds or by humans to keep records? Subsequent research has shown evidence of intelligent design.

Similarly, there are differences in the results in a person pecking away randomly at a keyboard and someone typing a Shakespearean sonnet. The sonnet has design and meaning and contains information while the paper with random pecking does not.

Reid's use of Cicero explains this well. "Cicero in his tract De Natura Deorum speaks thus: Can anything be done by chance have all the marks of design?"

A hog grubbing in the earth with his snout may cause the letter "A" to appear, but would he ever make enough letters to form a complete sentence?

The computer is a finely tuned, information- carrying machine. Even if one did not have knowledge of the computer's creator, one must automatically assume that there had been a creator. Considering this, why would one assume that an organism such as the human brain did not have a creator? The human brain has the greatest concentration of chemo-neurological order and complexity in the physical universe. It is a video camera, a library, and a communication center all rolled into one! Weighing 1350 grams (about three pounds), the adult brain is able to hold the information of 1,000 supercomputers. Computers were designed by humans using intelligence. The human brain was also designed by someone with intelligence.