Intelligent design
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designnaked, it's been said before in this thread, but here are some points which cause me to support ID and be highly skeptical of Darwinian Evolution:
1. DNA. This is sequential digital code at the core of the cell. It is information and every example of information we know of, has an intelligent entity as it's source.
2. Molecular Machines and Irreducible & Specified Complexity. The cell is a vast liliputian world of mind boggling complexity. With machinery more complex than anything human engineers have developed. In fact, cellular biology is employing principles of advanced mechanical engineering just to try and understand some of these machines. These machines include: The Cell. The Bacteria Flagellum. The Blood Clotting Cascade. These machines are irreducible, meaning that if you remove any one component, the entire machine breaks. Darwinian gradualism cannot build these machines because of this. They require all of their parts at once, or not at all. Additionally, the parts are "specified", or purposefully arranged and placed. Something a mindless natural mechanism is incapable of building. In fact, Natural Selection would prevent it.
3. Lack of evidence for macroevolutionary changes in species. Irreducible Complexity demonstrates that Darwin's mechanism cannot produce novel information at the molecular level, and thus cannot produce novel tissue and body plans. And this is consistent with science, because it has never observed this. We only see change/adaptation within an existing species, we do not observe species becoming new species.
4. Relating to the previous point, the fossil record. The record shows that during the Cambrian period, we have the sudden appearance of millions of body plans, which according to evolutionary time tables, would be impossible to have evolved from other species. And that's giving Darwin's mechanism of NS + RM, the benefit of the doubt regarding evolving species to species.
5. Fine Tuning of Physical constants, etc.... Gravity, oxygen, positioning relative to the sun and moon - these are all precisely where they need to be within an minute tolerance, in order to support organic life. Any variation on even the smallest scale, and life would not be possible.
6. The Big Bang + General Relativity. The fact that all matter and energy came into being at a specific time in the past, points strongly to a first cause.
7. Human Conscience. Since it's not possible for a purely physical mechanism to produce that which is metaphysical - emotions, altruism, artistic expression, first-person perspective, etc... it is logical to infer a designer.
These are just a few quick points and I'm typing way too fast. There are others, but this would give you an idea of the type of data which supports ID. Hope it helps.