Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design
- Evidence shows that life only comes from life, not from non-living matter. This highlights the need for a Creator.
- DNA stores vast amounts of information. The best explanation for the existence of DNA is that it was designed by a supernatural mind.
- The Anthropic principle shows that earth was fine-tuned for life, meeting dozens of highly restrictive parameters necessary for life to exist. For example, earth is at precisely the right distance from the sun.
- There is evidence of irreducible complexity in biology. Each component of these all or nothing systems must be present and functional or else the whole system is useless. A classic example is the bacterial flagellum.
Irreducible complexity Irreducible complexity (IC) is an argument by proponents of intelligent design that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or “less complete” predecessors, through natural selection acting upon a series of advantageous naturally occurring, chance mutations.
Anthropic Principle In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle (from Greek anthropos, meaning “human”) is the philosophical consideration that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it.