It's not retrospective astonishment, it's science.
It's retrospective astonishment. There is no evidence for design that I am aware of that isn't just as easily accounted for as the evidence of differentiated physical processes seeking equalibrium. The existence of diamonds in nature, despite the enormous energy gradients they have to climb to reach this crystaline form, is just as good evidence of the necessity of design as any from the biological world. Populations of DNA-designed organisms seek equilibriums that optimally conserve resources for them in their given environment. That environments change is the only additional knowledge you need to know why apparent design occurs in the organic world.
We are not talking equilibrium here, and anyway the equilibrium is that order disintegrates not that order arises at random. You materialists have the whole thing backwards.