"One novel version of Intelligent Design my wife showed me last night was the push to teach that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe."
How do you know the Flying Spaghetti Monster didn't create the universe? If you know he didn't, then you must know who did? Where did you get this knowledge? How do you know what you know?
Exactly!
My take is that I have absolutely no clue about any of that stuff, let alone the capacity to prove it. ;-)
I think I am
Therefore I am
I think...
How do we know anything for sure? Do you think that life is the result of a series of accidents? How would you know that for sure?