The "intelligent design" for a solar system is entirely natural. Suns and solar systems occur due to quantum mechanics, and the gravity caused by the clumping together of matter... which is caused by quantum mechanics. These things occur entirely by natural means. Because we live in a universe of energy, and energy interacts with itself. One of the forms that energy takes, quite by natural means, is matter. And matter is the stuff of the stars and planets, the sun and the moon, and you and me. No "intelligent design" is required. Your ignorance of the underlying causes of how the universe works doesn't mean that these things haven't already been worked out. Ignorance is a quality that we all possess, when we simply do no know something. Profound ignorance occurs when the knowledge has been presented to us, but we can't be bothered to examine it. Or because it conflicts with answers we have made up and declared to be true (make believe), because we prefer to embrace our make believe.
Allow me to give you a short demonstration of quantum mechanics in action. Tornados:
Here in the USA the conditions are right for a phenomenon called tornadoes. Tornadoes are often called "the finger of God," but in truth they have no connection to anything intelligent. They are caused entirely by the conditions that exist in the American midwest, and the fact that energy interacts with itself.
They occur, like everything else in the universe occurs, because of a process called quantum mechanics at work.
The sun is constantly streaming out radiation, which is to say, tiny bits of quanta, some of which is charged either positively or negatively. Because positively and negatively charged particles either attract or repel each other, when these particles strike the earth they cause the earth's molecules to react by moving in response. You have direct evidence of this every time you stand in the sun. Positive and negative bits of radiation from the sun strike your skin, which is composed of bits of matter that is also positively and negatively charged. When the charged particles from the sun strike your skin, the molecules of your skin are forced to adjust (move) in response. This movement is what we detect as
heat. The same thing happen to the ground, or to water, when they are bathed in charged particles from the sun. The ground heats up rather quickly. Large bodies of water, like the ocean, heat up more slowly. This creates a disparity. Nature hates a disparity and attempts to correct it. Science refers to this attempt by nature to correct disparity (unbalance) as entropy.
The more southern latitudes, being more directly in line with the sun, receive more of this solar heating. Conversely, the northern latitudes receive less. This is why it is noticeably cooler at the poles then at the equator.
As the sun shines on the Gulf of Mexico, the nice warm tropical Caribbean, the air molecules become more active and spread out, causing the air to become lighter. As you may know, warm air rises. It rises because as the molecules of air spread out, they become less dense in volume and therefore lighter. In the gulf of Mexico however, the sun also causes the waters of the Caribbean to evaporate. The water molecules fill in the spaces between the air molecules more heavily, causing the air to be dense and heavy with water molecules (H2O). We call this humidity, and if you have ever been in any of the southern United States in the summer, most especially Florida, then you have had direct experience with humidity. It's like a sauna in the summer.
Water heats more slowly than the land does however. So air over land masses can heat heat quite rapidly whereas the air over water remains cooler. Disparity! As the warm air inland rises, the relatively cooler humid air over the Gulf is pulled in to fill the vacuum. We refer to this resulting movement of air as "wind," and it has nothing to do with the supernatural. It is an ENTIRELY natural process at work. In the far north over Canada the cool dense air is also pulled towards the vacuum caused by the warm rising air over the mid-section of the US. And here is where tornadoes are born.
When the warm but moisture heavy air from the south meets with the cold air from the north, things can turn violent. The moisture in the warm humid air from the south very quickly condenses and turns into rain. If the cold northern air is below freezing at elevation, when the cold air encounters the heavily moisture ladened air from the south hail (ice) is produced. Not just any hail either. Big chunks of ice fall from the sky large enough to kill. When the naturally warm air from the south is suddenly relieved of its moisture, it instantly becomes lighter, and rapidly rises. The heavier cool air from the north falls into the vacuum caused by the rapidly rising warm air. When the conditions between the cold air mass and the warm air mass are disparate enough, and the abrupt loss of moisture in the warm air is rapid enough, this can cause a violently rotating column of air to form at speeds of several hundred miles per hour.
We call this a tornado. And it has nothing to do with any intelligence. It occurs because there are positively and negatively charged particles (quanta) from the sun constantly bathing the earth. Because oppositely charged particles (quanta) are attracted to each other, while particles (quanta) with like charges are repelled by each other. This is the driving principle behind quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics is the driving force behind
everything that occurs. Quantum mechanics occurs because matter/energy
NATURALLY interacts with itself. Positive and negative charges are responsible for the sun, the stars, and the very thoughts in your brain.
Make believe is not involved. Crediting all of this to God or the gods or any supernatural cause at all, yes, that is fictitious. And things which are fictitious can be SHOWN to be fictitious.
In 1994 a tornado hit the Goshen Alabama Methodist Church during Sunday service, causing the walls of the church to collapse. Twenty people died including six children. Why would God allow the deaths of those in His own house of worship, including the most innocent, who were there in the very act of worshiping him, when all He had to do was to prevent the walls from collapsing? The problem is that when put to the test, make believe is invariably unaffected by the harsh realities of real life. If you encounter winds of several hundred miles an hour, and a wall falls on you, make believe does not serve as protection. Even for innocent children. But
the truth is, that no god, no supernatural cause, was responsible. What occurred was the result of
entirely natural forces at work! It's simply bad luck,i.e., being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because life is something of a crap shoot.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/us...ith-holds.html
The point is, in
real life what we actually observe is that when the chips are down and faith is confronted by reality, reality will ALWAYS win out. When the chips are down and a Supreme Being would really
REALLY come in handy, God, invisible unknowable but assumed to exist anyway God, will invariably act
in exactly the same manner as a God who isn't actually there. In fact a God who refuses to act even in the face of the ultimate crisis of life and death for the most innocent of His followers is a God who corresponds in every way to A GOD WHO NEVER EXISTED TO BEGIN WITH! What exactly is the difference? This is as close to an empirical test for the actual existence of God as one might reasonably hope for. And in these sorts of make or break tests, the result for the question "does God exist," invariably corresponds in every way to a negative finding. That means
NO!
Now let me make it clear. God is not to blame for so called "acts of God." Life can be random and capricious. Bad things can happen to people who are simply attempting to be "good." Reality (natural processes at work) is completely indifferent to the needs and struggles of life. Including human lives.
Too much writing? Then by all means, choose to remain ignorant. But at least try to understand why your superstitious arguments have no impact on those who have not chosen superstitious ignorance over actually making an effort to understand what is occurring and why.
Yup!
AS I have already indicated, humans are literally an example of the universe attempting to contemplate itself. It seems that humans must go through a superstitious stage of subscribing to make believe, before learning to work out the answers based on what the universe is actually telling us. Then we need to learn to pay attention and stop making up answers that happen to suit us.