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Is there a designer?

We see order and managed systems throughout the natural world. The natural sciences (physics, chemistry, etc) show an order to the universe. There are known, defined rules operating everywhere we look.

There are many hypothesis about how things (of all sorts) operate. Many of these will not be proven to be correct and they will eventually be replaced by other ideas until one is found that seems to be OK (on the basis of the current scientific knowledge at that time!).

We call them 'natural' laws, they are implicitly part of nature itself. We know the speed of light, the rate of decay of various isotopes, the chemical makeup of most materials, etc.
But all we are doing is measuring stuff. We can see the role that things have in relation to other things. What scientists cannot do is to say 'why' it exists. It just does!

So why is the Universe as it is?

There are many galaxies and billions of stars, the Universe is immense. Why is our planet where it is in the Universe? Is it lucky(!) that the Earth is where it is? Most galaxies appear to be too unstable, too hot, too near dark holes, to have too much radiation, to have too much of this or not enough of that! Even in our galaxy the Solar system is in just the right place, with just the right sized Sun, and just the right sized planets and just the right sized trajectory around the sun, etc. etc.

The Evolutionist used to think that there were millions of places in the Universe with our form of life. Now they have decided that there may only be a few other places capable of supporting life (as we know it Spock!)
So human beings are really lucky, aren't they? Almost anywhere else in this huge Universe and we would not exist!

So what is the probability of us being in our location by pure random chance alone? Our planet is in just the right place for life to exist on it. We could not exist with even minor variations in the setup of the Solar System.

Is this just a coincidence? The odds of it happening by chance are too great for chance alone to be the reason.

Order infers design.
Disorder is associated with randomness.