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An article yesterday in the Washington post concerning intelligent design made me start thinking about it again. The idea behind the theory is basically this: human beings are so complex that they could not have just occurred randomly as evolution proposes, but that something must have designed us. Some might start with the analogy of a watch and a watchmaker when trying to explain the theory. "Can you imagine a watch just occurring in nature? No. It had to have a maker," they'll say.
There was a much more in depth article on this topic in the October, 2004 issue of Wired, that also mentioned how proponents of this theory are trying to have it inserted into school curriculums along side evolution as an alternative theory. Of course, proponents also argue that they're not trying to insert religion into schools and will skirt around questions aimed and who or what was intelligent enough to design such complicated things.
Two questions which have popped up in my mind (and I don't recall how much these are due to having read stuff or if I actually came up with them myself) are:

Who designed the designer? Any being that is able to design something so complex as us must be so complex that it must have a designer itself, right? It would seem that intelligent design is more of an argument for an infinite number of more and more intelligent designers.

If this intelligent designer was so intelligent, why do we all have an appendix and bad knees? Honestly, we're not built the best. This was not a very intelligent watchmaker. We're like Casios down here. Except for some Rolexes (supermodels) and Calculator watches (nerds).