One of today’s premier evolutionists, Richard Dawkins, acknowledged that "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." Darwin himself admitted that, in reflection upon the human eye, the idea that natural selection could produce something like the eye is "I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree." He said that concept is "more than enough to stagger anyone." Nevertheless, Darwin his followers continued to argue that natural selection and chance mutations account for these "complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose."

The processes involved in cells are immensely complex. To suppose that they "just happened" is to fly in the face of everything we know or observe. In all human experience, we know that it takes intelligence to write something like an encyclopedia or a computer program. We know that you cannot produce a computer by purely non-intelligent processes. Yet, the cell is much more complex than anything ever invented by the human mind.

The point of intelligent design is this: the information that is present in cells necessarily points to the conclusion that they are the result of intelligent design. To be aware of the complexity of such processes, then to argue that they happened through random, chance mutation and natural selection is tantamount to arguing that your computer just happened through a series of slight chance alterations without any kind of intelligence behind it. No honest person would argue that with a straight face. Yet this is essentially what is argued for items that are far more complex than anything humanly designed.

Add to this the vast amount of "just right" situations necessary for life to exist here on this earth. Anything from the earth’s distance from the sun to the moon’s distance from the earth, etc. all show that there is intelligence behind life on this earth. Then factor the mathematically possibilities that all of this happened by pure chance, and the case for intelligent design is overwhelming. The astounding degree of complexity and order argues for a Creator, not for chance evolutionism.

It has been estimated, for example, that the chance development of a very simple system composed of just 200 integrated parts is 1 chance in 10 ( to the 375^th power) (Huse, The Collapse of Evolution). This is simple compared to living systems. By all practical considerations, this would be an impossibility. And those numbers sore much higher when you talk about the complexity involved in living systems. What this means is that the likelihood of there being an Intelligent Designer is virtually guaranteed. The chance that life came about by pure chance is, simply put, impossible.

By a consideration, then, of the complexity of living systems, one can be confident that there is an outside (supernatural, if you will) force that added the necessary information to make it all work together with the order it needs. Keep in mind, too, that this is just a simple overview.

So here, then, is a basic case for Theism. Intelligent design speaks of an intelligent Designer who is not a part of the material order of things. The complexity of life systems is an argument against the naturalistic theory of evolution. Evolutionism cannot fully explain the information present in living organisms. Even Darwinists like Dawkins recognize that things "look" designed, but then they fly in the face of the evidence to argue that, ultimately, nothing is designed.