It is the nonsense of "natural selection" that was truly devolutionary.

 

…the true leader is… not a revolutionary. He is instead someone who reestablishes the genuine covenant, or contract, that has always guided mankind. He is instead someone who brings his spirit into alignment with what has always been great. He is, therefore, someone who renews, rather than someone who shatters and then too radically and hubristically reshapes; someone who can identify and reserve what is truly nourishing and offer it once again for mass consumption. Such a figure only has as a revolutionary mien when the society against which he is standing has forgotten so much and become so corrupt that the good now makes itself manifest as a shocking revelation.

Peterson, Jordan B.. We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine (p. 333). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

This is why the idea of intelligent design is perceived as shocking in the modern scientific world. It was not always so. Science was born out of a conviction of intelligent design as the foundation stone of reality. Intelligent design is part of the genuine covenant that has always guided mankind. It is the covenant of the eternal reality of the personal which is what we mean by God. The material is built on the personal not the other way around. Modern science has become so entangled with a materialist mindset that it cannot even see what has happened.

What is the argument?

 The argument about design is - in the end- about what a person is and whether they exist or not.

The most fundamental place where this argument takes place it with regards to origins. This is not the only place where it is important however.

Everyone involved in the argument knows that this argument has the largest possible consequences all down the line.

This is not merely a dry as dust academic puzzle.

This is not a place where anyone can be objective and without personal interest.

It is about the most basic foundations of your whole way of life and thought.

Everything is at stake here for everyone. There are no disinterested parties here.

How nice is our argument?

This is not simply a logical puzzle. This is not simply a game.

Many people think we should be just "nice"!

Many people think we should be just "winsome"!

I was once told the story of a crash on the M6 motorway. It was because of dense fog and there was, in the fog, a pile up of cars. There was no warning and more and more cars were piling into the fatal carnage.

I was told of a man running up the hard shoulder of the motorway shouting and screaming and throwing road cones into the road... trying to slow the traffic. Trying to stop more and more cars ploughing into the crash.

I want to be that man.

We are to be careful.

We are to use our words with kindness and consideration.

But...

We are to be alarmed

We are to be alarming

We are to be angry.

We need to identify the lies and we need to identify the deliberate liars.