dhw: I do not believe it either. But this is the agnostic's dilemma: ALL the explanations are just-so stories. Instead of "asking for design from self-designing intelligences", you ask for design from...a self-designed intelligence! What else is your God?-Yes, our difference is your unwillingness to allow belief without absolute proof, which none of us will ever have, now or to the infinite future when the universe dissolves into heat death.