An iconic Canadian symbol—more commonly seen the farther north one travels—is the humanlike visage known as an inukshuk. The word generally means “in the likeness of a human,” and they have been made for generations now as markers and navigation instruments by the Inuit people living on the vast arctic landscape.
For many in academia, the term “intelligent design” often elicits a negative reaction—kind of like mentioning tarot cards, flat earth ideas, or conspiracy theories. But why is that? Well, naturalists have been declaring for decades now that life is simply the result of natural processes operating on matter and energy. But modern science is revealing a sophistication of design and biological complexity in living things well beyond the most creative genius ever expressed by the human race. In fact, so apparent is the design found in living things, even atheists have to admit to it. But they still attempt to skirt the obvious implication that design indicates a designer. As arch- atheist and anti-creationist Professor Richard Dawkins has said, “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” So, while intelligent design is often scoffed at, the world finds quite acceptable the idea of unintelligent design. But the logical conclusion of their confident claims is that non-intelligence is far better at designing things than an intelligence is—better even than an intelligence “unintelligently designed” by it!
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