[tacticalogic]

The random variation we observe in biology provides a powerful case for intelligent design. It requires a wellengineered underlying mechanism of stability to protect itself from error catastrophe, and it is not infinitely plastic but constrained to the range of possible outcomes provided by the kinds of gene regulation combinations accessible to it.

Those are constrained by the possible combinations of chemical bonds the the elements are capable of forming. ID proponents seem to constrain themselves to only considering life to have been intelligently designed. The idea that life is a subsequent consequence of an intelligently designed universe doesn't seem to be something they can fit into that theory.

[GodGunsGuts]

Have you read Privileged Planet?