Mike O Risal writes:
If an initial intelligent designer is posited as the reason for the biodiversity we see today, does that intelligent designer still exist? If not, what happened to it? If so, is it still designing? If the latter of these two possibilities is the case, then why do we not see radically new body plans appearing currently? Just taking animals as an example, we see a very limited number of basic body plans. If the designer still exists and is still designing, why don't we see much departure from these.
You never would've been able to observe radical changes in one lifetime, Mike, as I suspect you know. It's because the designer designs in very small, incremental steps. That's because he wants to hide his existence, and to make it appear to any careful observers that evolution is the culprit. That's the only kind of designer who fits the evidence that biologists and paleontoligists find.
Perhaps a better O.P. question would've been "why does the designer always design within the parameters of evolutionary possibility, and on the time scale that evolution would require?"
I'm quite new here, as well, and I expect that's already been asked by someone, somewhere on the site, at least once!
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