Faith is what counts.

John E. Tutten has an article at the American Thinker today that discusses the Intelligent Design theory as one that is eminently reasonable. Indeed, in Is Religion Anti-Intellectual? he makes the case that belief in the Intelligent Design theory may have more scientific basis, and in fact be more intellectual than not believing. Interestingly, Tutten doesn't call it "intelligent design" perhaps to avoid prejudicing people before they have heard the arguments.

I will ask you to read the whole article.  I will say that many of the people I have noted find intelligent design plausible are engineers, and scientist such as mathematicians and physics practitioners  that observed a growing body of inconsistencies in the established theories.  To take just one, Cosmologists have for years been working to calculate ever closer and closer to the Big Bang.  They know what the universe looked like within a second or so of that event, but they can not "see" what happened before the Big Bang.  What we do know is at the moment of the Big Bang, apparently all the energy and the mass that exists in the universe sprang out of nothing, or a "singularity," which is a fancier way of saying "nothing."

Now, here is a more interesting thing.  There are apparently six variables that must be chosen precisely to achieve the universe we have.  The probability of a random process picking the right number for one of the six variables is very small.  The probability of a random process picking all six numbers correctly becomes so vanishingly small as to resemble impossible.  Oh, of course the probability that the universe came into being as it did through random chances is greater than zero, but even the most incorrigible gambler wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

The original idea that Darwin conceived was that species evolved through  survival of the fittest. As far as it goes, that theory is apparently sound.  The trouble with Darwin's theory is when it is extended to say that one species evolves into another.  If true, the fossil record should be full of so called "missing links."  But there has never been found a missing link.

Of course, Darwin had no idea of the existence of DNA and its role in protein synthesis. Today we know an enormous amount about the genetic code and its role in biological life. We understand what it does, but we have absolutely no idea how such a sophisticated set of instructions and their sequencing could have self-assembled through natural unguided processes. The most brilliant software engineers in the world cannot begin to duplicate the eloquence we see in the DNA code. It clearly displays the earmarks of intelligence to those willing to see.

There are more "coincidences" that ensure the world would be amenable to human habitation at just the right time for humans to come on the planet. But that is not the most important thing. You see, even if there is a justifiable reason to believe in an intelligent creator, that doesn't say anything about the nature of such a creator. That requires faith. One must have faith that God did indeed so love us that he gave his only begotten Son, that those who are baptized and believe in him shall be saved.  That there is an intelligent designer at work in the universe doesn't say that this universe was designed specifically to bring about humans capable of appreciating this act, and having a loving relationship with this creator.  That takes faith.  Faith is what counts.