God as intelligent designer (summary)

The universe shows every sign of having been fine-tuned for life to exist.
Constants create order in nature and these constants show every sign of being fine-tuned for life.
God, if God exists, is a genius mathematician.
Some maintain that the fine-tuning indicates that there must be an infinite number of universes with different laws.
However, there are strong arguments against the multiverse hypothesis including the fact that it still does not explain where the laws of physics or consciousness came from and the fact that it violates Occam’s razor.
Others argue that the fine-tuning of the universe is proof of intelligent and deliberate design and that the apparent fine-tuning of the universe is proof of God
Through its discovery of fine-tuning, science points to God.
The fine-tuning of the universe indicates that the universe has a purpose which includes the existence of life.

God, the creator, is a designer, a designer of vast intelligence, a God revealed in the harmony and order of the universe.
God, the designer, has created the world to be as interesting as possible.
God, the designer, has also been described as an engineer and an architect.
God designs not just the universe, but our lives too.
We are all part of God’s design.

Some argue that evolution and the notion of God as creator are not compatible
Evolution, they argue, explains away God.
Others argue that intelligent design is compatible with evolution.
The belief in intelligent design is not a belief in creationism.
Evolution is just another name for God.
Evolution is how God creates.
Evolution is the law of God.
Of course, some creationists deny evolution.
It’s true to say there is much about evolution we still don’t know.
There are those who argue that the complexity of the universe’s design is not proof of God, that any notion of intelligent design is a kind of ignorance, that intelligent design is a form of “God of the gaps” that explains things away and that the design is not that intelligent to start off with.

Traditionally, God was seen as the intelligent designer of a mechanical universe, a kind of clockmaker or watchmaker, an expert in mechanics and geometry, an oversees of cosmic clocks and calendars, a God that winds up the universe and then allows to run on its own, a God that was then later increasingly dispensed of altogether.
God as watchmaker no longer feels relevant and is hard to conceive.
God as watchmaker implies that we too are no more than machines and that our lives are mechanical, devoid of meaning and destiny.
God as watchmaker does not explain the creativity and adaptability evident in nature.
It feels more relevant to see the word as alive and organic rather than mechanical.
It feels more relevant to see God, the designer, as a computer programmer, genetic engineer, or the environmental scientist.
Some even see God, the designer, as nature itself or as life itself.
Some argue the world appears more like a thought of God than a machine and this implies that God, the designer, is a mind.