Logically, appearance of design is evidence of design. How else should design appearance be interpreted?
We have, in recent decades, found two methods for producing an apparently designed object:
1) The Old Fashioned Way.
We apply intelligence to understanding the problem. We look far and wide to see what alternative solutions there maybe. We consider what we are attempting to solve. We take into account the costs and limitations we are operating under. We strive for "elegance" in the design -- which usually means simplicity and comprehensibility.
This can be likened to someone solving a puzzle by examining the picture on the box, considering the shape and pattern on a piece in hand and looking over the partially completed picture to find likely spots to place it. This is most satisfying when we triumphantly put a piece in directly.
Let's call this Intelligent Design; since we carefully make us of our intelligence to derive it.
2) The New Fangled Way.
We construct an environment where evolutionary processes can be applied to the problem at hand. We attempt to not "second guess" the possible solutions. We simply allow the maximum of trail and error. We allow the process to run without guidance or input other than the selection part of the evolutionary paradigm.
This maybe likened to doing a jigsaw puzzle by randomly grabbing a piece and trying it in all available spots.
Let's call this "Unintelligent Design" since we produce a design but we do not apply any intelligence in the actual process.
Now let's look at the outcome of the two processes:
1) Intelligent Design
Some degree of elegance is achieved (mostly
).
The solutions will contain components that have been used in all sorts of other places.
2) Unintelligent Design
The solutions can be of arbitrary complexity.
The solutions are constrained by where the process started.
Now let's look at the world of living things. Which do the "designs" found here look like?
The answer is clear: Number 2
Of course, anyone who will state this:
Since every snowflake is different but generally the same, that is, a snowflake, we have face value evidence of special creation. No special pleading required.
and apparently suggests that there is a snowflake gremlin crafting each snowflake is so far removed from the real world that they will never be able to look at the two kind of designs and make any rational assessment of them. But this post is for the others who keep forgetting that the "designs" we see do speak volumes about the type of process that formed them.