A challenge

For the past three years, I have a standing challenge in all of my classes that involve evolution. I offer to give students an automatic A in the class if they can meet one of these, such as showing mathematically how evolution contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, define kind consistently in a way that shows why there can be no change between kinds, or to explain various biogeographic observations. I think I will add another one to the page as soon as I have some time (after finals).

ID often claims science uses inferences to design all of the time. Popular examples are SETI or archeologists determining that an artifact is designed, or inferences in criminal investigation. What all of these have in common is that we know something about the designer, or make assumptions about the designer in the case of SETI. But ID claims we can infer a "rarefied" design without knowing anything about the designer. We can simply say that something is designed, even if we know nothing at all about the intentions or methods of the designer. My challenge is to find any example of someone doing that in any field, excluding arguments for divinity. If a student can find any example of a crime, archeologists, SETI researcher, etc. that was able to say that something was designed without any suppositions at all about the nature of designer, my students will get an A in the class. As with all of my other challenges, I know it won't be met.

Of course, ID really does make assumptions about their designer. They believe it is God, and God is perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, etc. But they aren't allowed to say that and admit it is religion, so they try to pretend design can be independent of the designer. Prove it.