INTELLIGENT DESIGN EVIDENCE
The Nature of the Question
The evidentiary question is not a question of the
existence of design in nature, but the cause of
design in nature.
Origins: An Evidentiary Question

Origins science presents a simple evidentiary question.  Like any
other attempt to reconstruct a past event (or series of events),
origns science asks what hypotheses can be reasonably inferred
from observation of present-day material evidence.
Virtually all scientists, including evolutionists, observe design in nature.
Fossils exhibit design. Living body plans exhibit design. Micro-biological
features such as DNA exhibit design.





Only two causes are available to explain the design evident in nature:
unintelligent causes and intelligent causes.

  What Explanations Are Reasonable in Light of the Evidence?

Unintelligent causes include the natural actions of physics and
chemistry, operating alone by natural laws in space and time.
Unintelligent causes cannot produce true design, so Darwinists
dismiss the evident design in nature as apparent design.  

Intelligent causes include the actions of an intelligent agent (which may
be unknown, such as in anonymous works of art, or in archeological
finds) manipulating physics and chemistry to create something that
physics and chemistry alone cannot. Only intelligent causes can
produce true design.
The scientific question is simply:  Is the design
in nature a result of unintelligent causes
(Materialism/Darwinism) or at least partially to
intelligent causes (intelligent design)?