''i wouldn't call blatant logical fallacies "philosophical clarity."''
Logical fallacies? That's rather 'either/or' of you...
And to another, You are half right. Biology is more complicated indeed. However, it is the increased complexity that is a problem for evolution, not the I.D. argument.
The simpler the root components of a system, the easier it can be explained by chance and necessity. The more complex and interdependant the system, the more logically necessary becomes the need to invoke intelligence.
For example, Darwin never proposed that a human being formed from chemicals out of the primordial oceans, because it is a logical absurdity. Instead, he imagined a simple one-celled organism emerging and then evolving.
As it turns out, those one-celled organisms are complex enough that we still don't understand all there is to learn about them. The plot is thickening not thinning...
Most envision DNA emrging in some simple form (some like Francis Crick think it came in missile from from elsewhere in the Cosmos) and then evolving into more and more complex arrangements. The problem is that DNA is not alive. It is a component of a system that needs almost all of the other thousands of components in place for the whole organism to be alive (i.e. an arm is not alive, without the rest of the body). And each component is a precise piece of a puzzle that is not within our capacity technologically to appriciate. In biology, we have technology at a level that a man cannot say is within his reach to grasp.
Obviously, healing does take place, so you and I do not die if we lose a finger, but as a rule, biology is a fragile system and in an cosmological environment that is hostile to life, not conducive to it.
Nature does it's best to kill, I have to invoke supernature to be intellectually satisfied, speaking for myself. You're all free to believe what you want, I just think you have more faith than I.
As for the Bible, the only reason I didn't understand it for so long was because I didn't want it to be true...
Rob
Any biters in the stream?