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There is a problem with your allegory -- when a scientist looks at a living organism, such as man, if he sees that organism as designed he would wonder at the sanity or sobriety of the designer. Let's take man, for instance. The human back is a rather poor compromise between the horizontal back of a quadruped and a proper upright spine. Because of this humans suffer an inordinate amount of back problems (you may have noticed this on your own). Additionally human knees are not quite up to an upright stance, either, causing all sorts of knee problems especially as we get older. The human eye, as has been pointed out before, has a major blind spot right in the middle of its field of vision. This is because the optic nerve lies atop the retina. Humans (and our closest cousins) cannot make Vitamin C which is vital to survival.

Now, evolutionary science can explain all these things (the knees and back because up until relatively recently [geologically speaking] we went around on all fours, the eye because it is the ad hoc affair it appears to be and the Vitamin C deficiency because in our "natural" habitat Vitamin C was plentiful in nature so our bodies didn't need to make it any more.

... when a scientist looks at a living organism, such as man, if he sees that organism as designed he would wonder at the sanity or sobriety of the designer.

There are lots more examples of poor engineering of humans, many equally as obvious as the ones you mentioned. Our teeth aren't great, we are far too subject to various diseases, our hearts give out too soon, and why in the world do any of us have allergies? Why, if we were purposefully designed for this planet, should we be allergic to anything on earth?

It may very well be that the "reasons" for these apparent deficiencies in the design of the human body are not readily apparent. When I was in school we learned that the tonsils were an extraneous part of the human body, a remnant from a previous generation of the human race that was no longer needed. Now, it is understood that the tonsils are a vital component in the human immune system.

And the notion that our bodies no longer produce Vitamin C because "it was plentiful in our natural environment" is a bit absurd. If this were the case, then one would expect to find Scandinavians or Eskimos who have begun to "devolve" back to the point where their bodies would still create Vitamin C.