Why do people assume "intelligent design" refers to some god? Space aliens are as likely a source of the intelligence as a god. Or does the ID theory specify "god"? I've heard of ID but have not read about it and I'm curious to know if a god is the only assignee of the intelligence behind intelligent design
Intelligent Design seems to have several flavors. The intelligent design that this author speaks of does not specify an intelligence.
Some of the proponents of ID think Space Aliens made us. Then there is the "13th Floor" crowd which thinks we are someone's computer simulation. The unifying point of view seems to be that things can't evolve without some outside designer making decisions along the way. So they don't have to figure out how things really work, because the Designer can make whatever he wants. Consequently, the IDers bury their talents in the ground, and we all know how that turns out.
and who designed the designer, or how has it come into being? has it naturally evolved?
postulating a designer, you will run into the reductio ad infinitum fallacy
"Why do people assume "intelligent design" refers to some god? Space aliens are as likely a source of the intelligence as a god. Or does the ID theory specify "god"? I've heard of ID but have not read about it and I'm curious to know if a god is the only assignee of the intelligence behind intelligent design"
The possibility of intelligent life on other planets, other universes and even other dimensions is extremely high. The bible says God is light or in other words energy. Einstein proved energy can be converted into matter and vice-versa. I think about where mankind began and realize we are very close to our consciesness (energy) being able to go or be whatever we want it to be. Imagine people a even 200 years trying to fathom such things. I believe in God or an originator of the design. Genesis tells a story of evolution from fish in the sea first, to flying creatures of the air, to reptiles then mammals then modern man.