Evidence to expect given a designer

just Being Real writes:"I" being some sort of intelligence that was involved in the formation of the universe and life.......Scientific observation A: Something has never been observed coming from nothing.

Percy writes:One way would be to ask if you can describe any overt evidence that we should expect to see if there were a designer

mike the wiz writes: There are no new observed novel designs. Even if information was gained, they have yet to show an improvement to a fruit-fly. We see adaptations, but the same essential organisms.

Scientists report on the development of engineered silkworms that express a synthetic spider silk protein and stably produce chimeric silk fibers that are stronger than parental silkworm silk fibers and as tough as spider dragline silk

Taq writes:Why would you rewrite cytochrome C to make it look like evolution occurred?

LET'S TURN TO THE second issue: natural selection. People often think of natural selection as something almost magical. But it isn't. It's extraordinarily simple. I first witnessed natural selection taking place in a soap factory in Liverpool in the 1960s, where I worked after leaving school.Detergent was made then as it is made now: by forcing boiling hot chemicals at great pressure through a nozzle. As the mixture zooms out, the pressure drops, and it breaks into a vapour that is sucked away and a powder which is then sold as detergent.The nozzles were a damn nuisance. They were inefficient, kept blocking and made detergent grains of different sizes.Unilever and various other companies hired mathematicians and physicists in an attempt to improve the situation. But they didn't do very well; it turns out that the physics and maths of the transition from liquid to powder is quite difficult to understand.So, almost in despair, they turned to the lowly biologists and asked if they had anything to add. What the biologists did was to apply Darwinian natural selection.They made 10 copies of the nozzles, with slight changes absolutely at random. Some nozzles were longer, some shorter, some had a bigger or smaller hole, maybe a few grooves on the inside. But one of them improved a very small amount on the original, perhaps by just one or two per cent.Based on the improved nozzle, they made another 10 slightly different copies, and repeated the process. After only 45 generations — which would be an utterly trivial instant in evolutionary time — they had a nozzle that worked many times better than the original. This was without any forethought of any kind, only by a simple application of evolutionary mechanisms.