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You know, I was flipping though the replies after I posted my last, and I saw that alot of the posts were saying that the Intelligent Design camp is the camp that believes God created the process of Macro-evolution. Maybe the definition of ID has *ahem* evolved into something other than what I have adhered to for nearly 10 years now, but here is how I understand Intelligent Design.

The human eye, for example, is an extremely complicated part of the human organism. Much more complicated than that of any fish or lizard. (sure it doesn't move around in all the cool ways a chameleon can move its eyes, but the ability to distinguish and mix nearly the entire spectrum of light in the mid frequency range is unique.) So complicated in fact, that no evolutionary theory, save the 'hopeful monster' theory, can explain how the eye is what it is. Mathematically, no matter how much time you give it, it is impossible to evolve the human eye from a lesser eye. To many beneficial mutations would have to take place at once to even deem the eye useful, much less progressively so.

SO, the only other explanation for the human eye is that it was DESIGNED by an Intelligent Creator and made in it's present state.
Symbiosis, the bombardier beetle, etc... are all good arguments for Intelligent Design.

Actually, the human eye is not nearly as unique as you think it is. All our spectral range is shared by other primates (apes and monkeys). We have at least one design flaw in that the optic nerve lies across the middle of our retina, leaving a dead spot (which the brain fills in). Many nectar-eating insects actually have a wider spectral range and can see colors invisible to us.

Now, Darwin, in a bit of a rhetorical flourish used the eye to illustrate a potential falsification of his theory. But then immediately went on to describe the literally hundreds of variations of the eye found in nature, from simple light-sensitive spots, to certain avian eyes that can spot a mouse-sized object from half a mile away. Of course, your average creationist site does not include these paragraphs, only the rhetorical flourish, so you may not have been aware of them.