But, as free-thinker, consider this potential problem with the theory of intelligent design. If life is intelligently designed, then what would a reasonable person expect to typically see in the fossil record? No particular pattern at all — features like exoskeletons, endoskeletons, feathers, wings, etc going in and out of fashion just like the clothing and automotive designs intelligently created by humans. For example, spines might appear in 600-million-year-old strata, vanish about 450 million years ago, make a brief nostalic reappearance 300 million years back, etc.
One other prediction of intelligent design is the total absence of any vestigal features. One would certainly not expect to find traces of bits of anatomy found in ancestral species, just as one would not expect to find stamping patterns indicating some faint trace of 1950s tailfins in the metal structures of a modern automobile.