[aruanan]

The kindest thing I can say about this position is that it's disingenuous.

Sort of like agnosticism?

The main thrust of this op-ed is this, "If I had designed things, they would have looked like this or that or the other, but since they do not, they could not have been designed."

[js1138]

The main thrust of this op-ed is this, "If I had designed things, they would have looked like this or that or the other, but since they do not, they could not have been designed."

How is this not correct reasoning? After all, the one and only evidence of design put forth by ID proponents is "It's obvious when you see it." Since the evidence of design is that you know it when you see it, it is also obvious that you know shoddy design when you see it. It's also obvious that you know a kludge when you see it, as in a computer program that has had its features extended and bloated by adding functions one by one, rather than by designing from scratch.

Life looks more like Windows than Linux, so to speak.