Why does intelligent design use human designers for comparison?

Question

This phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants" should be applied to God if you're going to compare with human designers.

Thanks Tony.

Answer 1

Because that is all we have to compare it with.

Scientists have found that within a cell, there are thousands of what are often called “biochemical machines.” In trying to understand these biological systems, molecular biologists actually need to “reverse engineer” them. Is that not strong evidence that they were engineered to begin with?

Lester and Hefley said, “We once thought that the cell, the basic unit of life, was a simple bag of protoplasm. Then we learned that each cell in any life form is a teeming micro-universe of compartments, structures, and chemical agents...”

Dr. Stephen Meyer said, “Over the last 25 years, scientists have discovered an exquisite world of nanotechnology within living cells. Inside these tiny labyrinthine enclosures, scientists have found functioning turbines, miniature pumps, sliding clamps, complex circuits, rotary engines, and machines for copying, reading and editing digital information—hardly the simple ‘globules of plasm’ envisioned by Darwin's contemporaries.”

As Dr. Michael Behe has said, “Cells swim using machines, copy themselves with machinery, ingest food with machinery. . . highly sophisticated molecular machines control every cellular process.” And Dr. Behe has pointed out that many structures show irreducible complexity; all of their parts have to be in place simultaneously or they can’t function.

These elegant machines are of greater sophistication than we are capable of making. Dr. Michael Denton (a non-Christian molecular biologist) said, “Alongside the level of ingenuity and complexity exhibited by the molecular machinery of life, even our most advanced artifacts appear clumsy. We feel humbled, as neolithic man would in the presence of twentieth-century technology . . . It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field of fundamental biological research ever-increasing levels of design and complexity are being revealed at an ever-accelerating rate.”

Answer 2

Because one of the most prominent Creationist had a Degree in Engineering to the same level as my father but instead of working on Engines for vechiles(like my father does) they write about things entirely outside their adacemic profiles.

Answer 3

they aren't comparing it to human design per se, just design in general.
they could just as easily use a bird's nest as an example, but they don't because human design is generally more compelling to use.

Answer 4

Intelligence is a human attribute.

Answer 5

Your phrasing indicates a lack of intelligent design itself, so you may have answered your own question here....

....but if you choose to believe that life is an accident, that creation was random, and that the universe itself has been here forever with no origin....

Well, that's totally your choice. Not a good one, mind you - but it's all yours.

Answer 6

I love that argument, as it naturally leads to "what made the watch maker", and they always overlook that watches don't grow up to reproduce to create slightly different watches. It also implies that god(s) really like vacuum, hydrogen and black holes as that is some 99% of the contents of this universe.

Answer 7

It's called a faulty analogy.

Answer 8

This so-called "intelligent design" is a whole lot of hogwash and was designed by people, that's why it is what it is.