The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer - any challenges?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<However, one can start mid-stream: by explaining the origin of life 
from the inanimate universe from which it emerged Science
has not yet been able to accomplish this. If science is able to  
achieve this, the proof that validates the theory will be the  creation 
of life "in the test tube" from inanimate building blocks. >>

If and when life is created, it will certainly be a blow to religion.  
The absence of that occurence is proof conclusive of nothing.

<<Such an accomplishment, however, would lend more evidence to  
Intelligent Design -->>

You capitalize Intelligent Design, meaning you intend the current 
"thesis."  What science may or may not do in some future lab has 
nothing to do with that.

<<--than to an explanation based on "randomness," since the life so 
produced would be an artifact of culture ...>>

And here, for anyone reading this far, is the feebleness of your 
argument.  The creation of life might be, in the limited and perverse 
sense your argumentt requires, a cultral artifact.  It would also be a 
triumph of scientic method and, for those for whom it matterd, a final 
banishing of the primitive thinking reilgion endorses.

<<and no one argues convincingly that cultural artifacts are anything 
but the result of intelligent design, or at least, a hybridization of 
intelligent design and chance.>>

The "cultural artifact" in this specious and absurd argument being the 
creation of life.