Reply #162: Intelligent Design IS TOTAL CRAP.

[JonTheGeek]

The problem with inteliigent design is that there is no empirical evidence for it other than that the universe exists. It is not an alternative to evolution by any means. Evolution is backed up by HEAPS of observational data.

The basic theory behind intelligent design is that the universe exists, and is really complicated, therefore something must have created it. There is absolutely NO reason to assume that the universe was created by some 'being' unless you first assume that this being exists.

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The universe was created by an intelligent designer. If that is the case, what created the designer? The designer must have been as complex as the universe, which would mean that he would also have to have been designed by something... Perhaps an intelligent designer designer? But who designed the designer's designer?

As you can see, the intelligent design theory is needlessly complicated. If we are going to assume that the designer in all of his complexity existed without a designer, then why should we assume that the universe requires a designer? If we say that the Designer (God) had a designer, the question of who designed the designer's designer's... expands infinitely.

Wow, I just disproved intelligent designed and it only took me maybe 5 minutes. Now why should this be taught in schools?