Chances are, if you've heard anything about intelligent design, you've heard that it's

a faith-based, not a science-based idea.

Or maybe you've even heard it's religion masquerading a science.

Is that true?

Well, why don't you decide?

According to evolutionary biologists, such as Richard Dawkins of Oxford University,

living systems give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.

But that appearance is merely an illusion.

Why?

Well, according to Dawkins and his followers, wholly undirected processes such as natural

selection and random mutations can produce the intricate design-like structures in living

systems.

In their view, natural selection can mimic the powers of a designing intelligence without

being guided or directed in any way.

In contrast, the proponents of intelligent design argue that there are tell-tale features

of living systems and the universe that are best explained by a designing intelligence.

So what tell-tale signs of intelligence are we talking about?

There are many.

But let's focus here on just one.

The digital code stored in the DNA molecule.

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick mapped out the structure of the DNA molecule.

Along the interior of their famed double helix, they discovered a four-character code

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