Why just the Earth the result of design? How about everything that exists in the entire universe being the result of intelligent design? Lookit, the discovery of fractal mathematics was a minor revolution in that its derivative "chaos theory" basically destroyed the concept of "random" for all "eternity". Chaos theory says that there is pattern, order, predictability even in "random" or high entropy events and processes.
A quick aside- just leave it to the mavens of the grant lackey science mafia to name a branch of mathematics that discovers order in ALL things "chaos theory". That's like naming a charging tiger "nice kitty" or a bald tire a "safety tire". What was the ideological mafia trying to hide?
Anyhow, this universe and all that contains is nothing if not one huge diagram of various time/space entities constructed and interacting LAWFULLY. Of course this will change our anthropomorphised picture of God as an old guy in a robe with an hourglass in one hand and a scythe in the other, but the major idea that we can derive from a LAWFUL universe is that it then becomes knowable.
Yes, humans can discover this puppy, figure it out and act accordingly as in the Book of Genesis injunction to subdue and utilize nature. That means that our minds do not need centralized priesthoods to interpret "spiritual" matters for us. We can then act as sentient sovereign independent free agents reflecting the lawfullness of all things. Priesthoods gave us human sacrifice, brahminic caste social divisions, slavery and birthright aristocracy overseers- everything that this nation revolted against. The result of that revolution of free will was the nation that has led all people of earth into new realms of economic, juridical and creative freedom.
Yes, there is a design. You have to lobotomize yourself not to see it.
Walter
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How do we know that evolution isn't the design?
"Chaos theory says that there is pattern, order, predictability even in "random" or high entropy events and processes. "
That makes not sense at all.