Intelligent Design advocate claims that nobody says that God is necessarily the designer. Uh-huh then who are we talking about here?

Behe told the court Tuesday that while creationism is a religious concept, intelligent design is a scientific idea.

''Intelligent design … does not rely on any religious text,'' he said. ''It relies exclusively on physical information about nature and logical inferences.''

Behe testified Tuesday that intelligent design, unlike creationism, does not make references to religion or religious text. Although he said he believes that the intelligent designer is God, he said the intelligent design movement does not identify the designer and that there could be other causes.

Okay clearly this is a guy who is used to speaking in front of an intellectually stunted audience. For him to say that he believes that God is the designer, but that others who embrace Intelligent Design do not have to, is obviously rediculous on the face of it. Let's disassemble this a little.

The Intelligent Design theory needs two things. Intelligence and a designer. We have to believe that there is an entity that has an unfathomable intellectual capacity. He, or she, would have to have the brains to design everything from the most basic molecules to the laws of physics that would hold all of this together. He/she would also have to have an idea of what these creations were for, what their purpose was. He/she would have to be able to predict the changing needs of his/her experiment and how to facilitate that change.

Now accepting the possibility that such an entity might exist then there is another question which immediately follows that one. How?

What kind of organism would be capable of containing and controlling this unprecedented amount of energy? How large would it have to be? How would it use this power to shape the environment? I mean essentially if we buy the Christian account of creation then this creature can, with a thought, create mass by sheer force of will. How? Does he/she require basic materials and where do those come from? Or can it just make things up our of nothing? How does that work?

Okay now leaving that aside, there is another question. Where? Where does an entity with this amazing amount of power reside? Does he/she sleep? Where would it sleep? Does it eat? What does a God eat? Does it take up space? It must. From everything that we know about living vessels and how they function then this creature must be monstrous in size. He/she would literally need an entire galaxy to contain it's mass.

Then the next logical question is where did this entity come from? Was it born? Can it die? Is it the only one of its kind? That is a lot to swallow on faith. Every answer provided by these so called Intelligent Design scientists only leads to a plethora of unanswerable questions.

But let's give them the benefit of many of my doubts and accept that the Intelligent Design theory is not just a case of the old bait and switch game. Intelligent Design theory is possible and it does not necessarily have to mean that the designer is God.

So accepting all of this, then if it this is not God then who is it?

Is anybody else feeling a little dizzy?