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Intelligent design

...imagine you are driving through South Dakota and suddenly come upon a mountain bearing the unmistakable likenesses of four American presidents, looking just as you remember from your history books. Would you, would anyone, conclude that these shapes were the product of wind or rain or glacial erosion? Of course not. Immediately you realize that artists with chisels and drills have painstakingly carved these four famous faces out of the stone.

When we try to explain natural phenomenon, there are three possibilities: chance, law, or design. If the natural phenomenon is irregular, erratic, and unspecified, we conclude that it's a random event. If it is regular, repeatable, and predictable, we conclude that it is the result of natural forces. But if it is unpredictable and yet highly specified, we conclude that it is designed. The four president's faces on Mt. Rushmore are irregular (not something we happening generally as a result of erosion), yet specified (they fit a particular, preselected pattern). The evidence clearly points to design.

According to the anthropic principle, evidence for design is found throughout the physical universe. We find that many of the major features of the physical universe are irregular (there is no natural law accounting for them) and highly specified (they appear preselected to support...

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