Developing a focused set of questions for IDists - Comments encouraged

Some of ID's brightest bulbs will be convening for a session at Biola
Univ. in L.A. wherein they will lay themselves open to their harshest
critics asking the tough questions. More on this here -
http://www.biola.edu/cal/cal_detail.cfm?e=222.

As I have been indolently accumulating a list of such questions I
thought this would be a good time to try and polish them up by kicking
them around here. What I'm looking for is comment on the phrasing,
fairness, inherent flaws in, possible answers to, these questions. The
point in asking questions like these is obviously to try to reveal an
actual flaw or contradiction in ID reasoning, but I have to accept that
there may be unfair assumptions built into the questions that I have
missed. If you see a problem please don't hesitate to point it out.

All of the questions will be posted at my blog -
http://www.litcandle.blogspot.com/ (comments there are welcome as well)
but I thought it might be best to deal with these one at a time here.

And so, off we go with the first question,

1. For those who suggest "common design" as a reasonable
explanation for common descent - hypothesize a biological datum that
would falsify "common design." Regarding this datum, please explain
how you know the designer could not or would not design in such a
fashion.


Robert

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