I hold very strongly to the fact that as far as answering the question of how everything started and eventually made it to this point, we will never conclusively find the answer. In other words, there will never be some Earth-shattering piece of evidence that is going to make everyone rule out all other theories and settle the argument. With that I said, my only motivation in writing on this subject is to get people to open their minds. Abiogenesis (theory of non-organic into organic life in a spontaneous event) is no more wacky a theory as is irreducible complexity (certain things are too complex to have evolved).
When coming up with specific proof of ID, the only specific proof, as with evolution, lie in the probabilities. Is something more likely to have come about by this or that way. The evidence may show there is a far higher probability that leans to one side versus the other. Whales with hipbones shows there is a higher probability that over the course of time they evolved and once were on land versus a God that points his finger and bops a whale in the ocean. At the same time, the winding and turning of the flagellum in a precise machine-like action where a tiny amount of variation would destroy everything has a higher probability of some type of design versus a spontaneous eruption that put all of its parts in place.
Design theories are used in Anthropology, Forensics, and in the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) program. SETI researchers look for narrow bandwidth transmissions that come out of space. If they receive any of these transmissions in an organized sequence then it is proof of a specified complexity. Their are specified complexities exhibited biology, like the bacterial flagellum. Like forensics and anthropology experts determine a person did not die from natural causes, but from a blunt force trauma to the head. An injury that was designed can be speculated on first without alluding to the designer.
Can the design theory be tested in a lab? Yes, and it is happening as we speak. Scientists, not creationists or theologists are working on this: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19225824.000-intelligent-design-the-god-lab.html
This article points out a lab called the Biologic Institute that is funded by the pro-ID group the Discovery Institute:
The 2ND link is the Institutes take on the article in New Scientist. There is an on-going anti-evolution movement. I don't understand this because any science, if reasonable people believe they have evidence, should be looked at. Why is challenging the findings of evolution suddenly call "anti-evolution" movement? Can anyone see how evolutionists are turning into the very thing they hate, fanatics.
