What is Intelligent Design? Intelligent Design or ID holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.1 The incredible complexity of living organisms demands a designer. I believe that God is the Designer. Here we are going to focus on the fact of design rather than chance.
There are a few things I would like to point out before we dive into the features of design. Do you think that the faces on Mount Rushmore were made by slow natural processes of erosion and thermo expansion over milions of years? Of course not. They were designed.
I have a Casio WR50M atomic watch. It is an amazing design. It never loses time. I have never seen the person who designed my watch. Would it be reasonable to say, "You know, I've never seen who made this therefore he doesn't exist." That would be stupid and illogical.
If you see a painting, that is evidence of a painter. If you see a watch, that is evidence of a watchmaker. If you see a building, that is evidence of a builder. And if you see a creation, that is evidence of a Creator whether you can see him or not. A Creator does exist. Just look around and you will see His handiwork.
Most people say, "You expect me to have faith in God, who I can't see?" I think that if you really search the truth you will see God and realize the amount of faith it takes to believe in Evolution or chance, where there is no proof. Read this passage by Henry Morris,
"Even though it is not possible to prove God’s existence by rigorous scientific demonstration, it is even more impossible (if there was such a category) to prove His nonexistence! One cannot prove a “universal negative.” To prove that there is no God anywhere in the universe or at any time in the universe, would require omniscience and probably omnipresence as well, which are themselves attributes of deity. That is, one would have to be God, in order to prove there is no God!"2
To start off, we are going to take a look at a very tiny organism, a bacteria. Some bacteria, such as Salmonella and E Coli, are propelled by a flagellum that is ran by an extremely tiny complex motor. They can move up to 15 body lengths per second.3 The motors are so complex that they rotate 100,000 rpm forwards or backwards!4 These motors are so tiny that eight million of them would fit in the cross section of a human hair.5 Below is a animated picture of what one of these motors look like. Some textbooks say that life evolved from "primitive" uni- cellular organisms. This bacteria is single celled and it is not simple. These incredibly complex life systems had to be designed.
