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And who might those be who think evolution is guided by intelligent design?

There are individuals here on FreeRepublic who have stated such. Michael Behe also believes this, however he believes that the intelligent designer's intervention is more overt and detectable.

The teaching of evolution is used for the point of being able to state that the world exists without a creator.

By whom? Please be specific, explaining exactly how the theory of evolution is used to justify the premise that the world exists without a creator.

That has been so stated by all the "fathers" of evolution.

Please provide citations from the "fathers" where they explain how the theory of evolution demonstrates that the world exists without a creator.

By whom? Please be specific, explaining exactly how the theory of evolution is used to justify the premise that the world exists without a creator.

This has been discussed endlessly. I can't believe you ask me to post to you who have read it many times on other threads.

Michael Behe? Is he the only one you can think of?

You're missing the part where Darwin suggests his viewpoint is that of the agnostic. Check this thread to find a direct reference to it.

I think some of these guys were overwhelmed to find it was just chemistry at work ~ they had been looking for something they called "the spark of life", and here was Darwin saying "it's in the screwing".

Later on we have Crick, et al, and DNA, and the discovery that it's not simply chemistry ~ it's an entire incredibly complex manufacturing, communications and data processing device at the root of it all.

If you could have shown DNA to Darwin I suggest he'd gone away confused and not sure if he should be an agnostic or engaged in serious prayer all the time.

It'd been too much for his Victorian mind (when they still thought everything was clockwork, and a "computer" was still someone who "computed").

Turns out there is no "spark of life", viruses exist and have genes ~ just plug them in to your own genome and maybe they'll do something ~ ? I think they can. Others still think that the only stuff you're ever going to get to work you got from your parents.