Intelligent Design is a Fact, Not a Theory

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There are things in the universe and on the planet that point to an intelligent design and that God is that Intelligent Designer. There are many unique items within animals, plants, and human beings. These items are just too unique and complex to have just happened. The intelligent design of these items points to an Intelligent Designer not just chance.

Intelligent design is the study of patterns in nature, animals, and human beings that are best explained as the result of intelligence. (Dembski. 2010) Intelligent design investigates the effect of intelligence not the Designer. Therefore, intelligent design directly challenges Darwinism, Evolution, and other naturalistic approaches to the origin of life. (Dembski. 2004)

The first proofs of intelligent design are from among the animals of the world. The first animal is the bat. Bats actually have decent eyesight. They aren’t actually blind. The proof of intelligent design, however, lies in the hearing of bats. The hearing of bats is so sensitive that they use their hearing rather than their eyesight when navigating through caves. Bats are capable of producing and emitting sounds that even human beings cannot hear. The high-pitched sound bounces off objects in the bat’s path. The bats are able to react quickly without crashing into the objects. This high-pitched sound is different than the squeaking you hear when you are near a bat at the zoo. Bats, when flying produce this high-pitch sound from anywhere to a few times to two hundred times per sound. This is echolocation. The fact that bats have been using echolocation since the beginning proves that it was built into them and not something that evolved. (Colley. 2004) The second animal is the toucan. The she...

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