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For the designer of the universe, omnipotence IS a requirement.

How do you know? Couldn't there just be one tiny little smidgeon of a black hole over which the intelligent designer has no control; of which the intelligent designer has not the slightest awareness? Furthermore, how do you know the designer of the universe is not human?

. . . that organized matter is a result of unintelligent design.

I consider organized matter and nonintelligent (better word) design to be mutually exclusive entities. The two cannot co-exist, therefore I do not consider this to be a viable alternative. The point at which intelligent design ceases is the point at which science ceases.

"Furthermore, how do you know the designer of the universe is not human?"

Fester. WHY do you insult me with a statement like that? I KNOW you don't believe that for a second. How could humans possibly have created the universe? How can someone who professes to be a believing Christian even make a statement like that? That's one reason I find ID'ers to be as intellectually dishonest as YEC's. They can put forth a *possibility* like humans having created the universe with a straight face, as a cover for what they really believe, the God of the Bible is the designer.

"I consider organized matter and nonintelligent (better word) design to be mutually exclusive entities."

But you also said that both could be created by the designer. The existence of both could be evidence of a designer.

"The two cannot co-exist, therefore I do not consider this to be a viable alternative."

Not what you said before. You said either alternative had equal weight.

"The point at which intelligent design ceases is the point at which science ceases."

Science will work just the same whether the design was the result of an intelligence or of nature of matter.