Why a Designer?

That’s convincing and totally makes your case. Good grief. When a sculptor forms something, it’s by design. When a craftsman forms something, it’s by design.

Our difference is in a matter of faith, faith in God’s absolute and immanent sovereignty and his providential interventions. In his omnitemporalilty, he ‘was’ (that’s in scare quotes because it’s in past tense and does not really apply to God), he was not surprised. If you want, it would be tedious, but I can cite the several conversations where our difference in understanding the facts and reality of his sovereignty is plain. Or you could just read the Bible.

Factual evidence for Christians to rejoice in, remember and recount, and for true seekers to ponder paints the picture of how God’s providential designs are executed in his children’s lives, and it is not a difficult extrapolation to understand (in the limited sense we can understand how his providence works), to understand how it works in his interventions since the beginning of time, to be thankful for them and to delight in his creativity and craftsmanship.