Only an idiot (or an atheist) would say that life and the universe could not have been designed. Some of us are just arguing there's no scientific proof that it was.
There is no rational way to demonstrate the absence of design or intervention by an omnipotent being. One can only seek to demonstrate that things follow regular rules, and that such regular phenomena are sufficient.
It is also rather difficult to show that an unknown series of events in the past was improbable.
Going back to a previous post, regarding Dembski’s explanatory filter. Evolution is an algorithm that computes a number — the sequence of elements in a DNA strand.
Dembski argues that some specific numbers cannot be computed, namely those that result in complex structures. This is an odd kind of argument for a mathematician to make, and one rather bluntly denied by Hubert Yockey.
That's a poor argument since we *know* that Intelligent Design is responsible for all modern transgenic animals. The proof is in the lab.
Evolution can't explain them.