At this point people always say, “You’re postulating an intelligent designer, and we don’t believe in intelligent designers.” It’s important to point out the designer is nature; there is no designer outside of nature, it’s nature itself that is intelligent, it’s nature itself that is self-organizing and self-regulating. The reason nature appears to be intelligent is that it actually is. Over billions of years it’s figured out how to optimize conditions to make life on Earth possible and enable it to persist.
