Intelligent Design or Non-Intelligent Design?

Excerpts from the preface:

This is not a book about religion. Instead, it is about science, logic and common sense.We deny that humans are the most intelligent beings in this vast universe. The question we pose is - Is there intelligence behind this design or is everything the result of uncontrolled accidents happening over and over through millions of years to produce, finally, the complicated human body and other organisms inhabiting this earth today?

In this work we steer away completely from the various terms that name or describe supreme beings as authors of major religions. We use the term "intelligence" to refer to the thinking and planning behind all of the designed beings/creatures on this planet.

In this book you will see the term "pure evolutionist" used many times. This describes the personwho believes there is no intelligence behind the design of the human body - that everything happened by chance or by accident. The pure evolutionist may actually believe that humans are the most intelligent beings in the universe.

Finally, we advabce the idea that there cannot be such a concept as non-intelligent design. Anything that shows design cries out that there is some kind of intelligence behind that design.

So we suggest that our readers examine carefully the science the medical profession deals with every day in working with the human body. And as we examine this science, we encourage the use of logic and common sense in answering the question can there be such a thing as "non-intelligent" design?

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Excerpts from the Introduction to Intelligent Design

Theory tells us that millions and millions of years ago the earth was a big red-hot ball. Of course there was no life of any kind - it was just too hot. But as the earth cooled some liquid appeared with all kinds of minerals and dirt floating on and under the surface. Some time later - a few million years perhaps? - some kind of a miracle happened and a couple microscopic minerals got together and a living cell appeared. This was repeated over and over - lots of living cells because that liquid

(primordial soup it's called) was cool enough to allow these one celled things to exist. So, theory tells us that they found some way to take nourishment and survive and multiply. And all of this supposedly happened without any guidance or planning or intelligence behind any of it.

We could go on and on with these ideas, but it gets more and more absurd as we try to explain our existence as coming from some kind of primordial soup. Because, as we look at needs that had to be met, we wonder if it could be remotely possible that we are what we are today because non-living matter became living matter by accident after accident with no intelligence behind it in any way.

Common sense tells us to take an in-depth look at what we are now and come up with a rational explanation instead of the picture presented above.

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Excerpts from summaries:

We now have a pretty good grasp of how the human body is put together and how it functions. The issue is simply this - did chance and uncontrolled accidents make the body what it is or did a source of intelligence design this amazing "machine"? A few concise summary statements can help us answer the question posed in the title of this book, "Intelligent Design or Non-Intelligent Design?"

- At the back of the mouth the trachea (wind pipe) takes air to the lungs, and the esophagus takes food to the stomach. When a person swallows, a structure called the epiglottis covers the wind pipe so that food can move only through the esophagus to the stomach. The epiglottis is designed to prevent choking, and it only closes when swallowing takes place.

- At the back of each eyeball are optic nerves. The optic nerves taking signals from the left half of each eye take those signals to the right part of the brain. The optic nerves taking signals from the right half of each eye take those signals to the left part of the brain. The point at which two of the four sets of nerves cross each other is called the optic chiasma. When those signals reach the back part of the brain they are interpreted - and it is only then that we know what we have seen and the brain actually turns the inverted image right-side-up.

- The brain sends signals to the diaphragm and rib muscles telling them to create space for the lungs to expand, allowing the lungs to inhale. Then, after the lungs have a supply of air, the brain sends a signal to the diaphragm and rib muscles to relax. This relaxing compresses the lungs causing them to exhale. The lungs have no muscles of their own. Without those signals from the brain the lungs could not function. And even when we are asleep the cooperation between the brain, diaphragm and rib muscles keeps us alive even though we are completely unaware of the action.

(There are seventeen more summary statements in this book.)

Going back to that "primordial soup" we are told to accept, as fact, that non-living objects banged together and became living cells. We are also told to believe that, although design is overwhelming apparent, there is no intelligence behind that design. We are told to believe that all living things that we see, including human beings, are the results of chance or accidents We probably are also encouraged to believe that humans are the most intelligent beings in this vast universe. Does common sense possibly tell us otherwise?