On the other hand, we have something of a riddle here: A very intelligent designer could prefer to use processes that are self regulating simply because they do most of the work without requiring intelligence.
I think that is perhaps my biggest objection to the concept of Intellegent Design. The folk that point to bits and pieces and say "Look, there was a designer" might be right if the
'I' stood for Inept or Incompetent.
On the other hand, if they pointed at the system, at the mechanism called Evolution, at the beauty of a process that is self-healing, self-regulating and warranted to produce critters fitted for their environment, I might have to go along with them. In fact I think that's just what GOD did.
The problem with my approach as they might see it (IMHO) is that it places no unusual value or significance on the existence of humans. But then I don't thing we were a particular goal of the process anyway but rather only a remarkable result.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion