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But your hammer is obviously a manufactured item (i.e, there are tooling marks on the head, the handle is either cast plastic or rubber, in which case it has the marks of the die, or wood, in which case it was turned on a lathe and bears evidence of having done so). The hammer is an obvious "artifact." One cannot say the same for biological systems which bear no evidence of tooling.

The hammer is an obvious "artifact." One cannot say the same for biological systems which bear no evidence of tooling.

Well, this is where, by simple deduction, most people would beg to differ. In every case where we are able to observe an artifact we assume it is the result of intelligence acting upon the substances necessary to form the artifact. We don't even have to see a hammer in action to understand that it is an object of intelligent design.

As we've been able to form tools of our own to look deeper into the substance of things, we not only find something more complex than a hammer, but we see that it is dynamic, and that is is carrying out functions that have a purpose and yet are completely outside of our control.

I would be surprised and alarmed if I ever saw a hammer pick itself up and start doing its designed task without seeing a human hold it. Yet we see many functions carrying on about us without the aid of our consciousness or observation.

Can you understand why it would be easy to deduce that some kind of intelligence underlies the existence and dynamism in our universe?

The hammer is an obvious "artifact." One cannot say the same for biological systems which bear no evidence of tooling.

It's obviuos then, that you do NOT believe this Scripture!

Romans Chapter One
18. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19. since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.