The most powerfull argument that I have seen for Intelligent Design is the complexity of the information that is coded in the DNA. To create a single protein long strings of amino acids must be placed in the correct order. The information about the order in which to arrange Amino acids is coded in the DNA which can have one of four bases at any location - this is similar to binary computer code which an can have either a 1 or a 0 at any location.
Natural selection would not favor the gradual evolution of a new and beneficial protein, because, the intermediate stages would not provide a benefit to the organism. So, the new proteins (or at least any chunk of protein large enough to provide a benefit) would have to develop by chance before it could be protected by natural selection. The odds against randomly generating such a beneficial protein are astronomical due to the large number of DNA bases that would have to be arranged in the proper order. This is why I believe that intelligent design was required.
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Natural selection would not favor the gradual evolution of a new and beneficial protein, because, the intermediate stages would not provide a benefit to the organism. So, the new proteins (or at least any chunk of protein large enough to provide a benefit) would have to develop by chance before it could be protected by natural selection. The odds against randomly generating such a beneficial protein are astronomical due to the large number of DNA bases that would have to be arranged in the proper order. This is why I believe that intelligent design was required
Thank you for the reasoned answer. That is somewhat rare here of late.
What you are saying is that the question is complex. Nobody denies that.
But the problem I see in your argument is the tremendous leap from the idea that natural selection and related forces caused the changes over large amounts of time to we don't know how the changes occurred, so God must have done it.
I cannot see that, because we don't yet know the details of a specific change through time, the only other choice is supernatural intervention. Perhaps science is only a few weeks or years from discovering the exact details. It would not be the first time that some natural phenomenon previously ascribed to the supernatural has been explained by science.