This is not to defend the present-day political view called Creationism which asserts that the Bible says that the universe and living things were created in 24-hour days a few thousand years ago, but you should know that, in fairness to the Bible record, the Bible clearly allows an indefinite amount of time for the creation of the universe in its opening words in Genesis 1:1 & 2. In verse two, it plainly says that 'darkness' was over the earth, not the universe or heavens. The following four "days" do not use the Hebrew word for "create", but "make", and apparently deal with the clearing of a cloud cover, 'making' first light, then sun, moon and stars visible in the sky. Of course, to this day the majority of planets' surfaces are still obscured by cloud covers. And Gen. 2:4 clearly shows that the "days" were not the 24-hour variety, calling ALL SEVEN "days" ONE "day". (There is an accurate, modern-English "Bible online" at http://www.watchtower.org, if you don't have one handy, but it's always good to check your own, too.) The Bible is unnecessarily getting a bad rap in all of this.
You are absolutely right. Absolute interpretation of any genuine evidence of intelligent design can only prove just that, that some things were intelligently designed. By whom would be a separate matter that would have to be proven, too.
However, you should know that there is evidence for some sort of intelligent design, in spite of the way it is misrepresented by some "fundamentalist" religious groups.
A bird called the Blackpoll Warbler has been tracked flying from Alaska to New England and then out over the Atlantic, catching the Jet Stream back to South America, then flying back all the way to Alaska every year.
If somebody asked us to construct a flying machine that can fly from Alaska to New England to South America and back unaided, could we? But suppose they also asked us to make it weigh less than one ounce. Could we? And no one may build it--it must build itself, because that is what the Blackpoll Warbler does in its egg, doesn't it? Feathers, dual TV cameras, flight computer and all. From a speck in an egg. Would we even try? Could the US government? The entire University system, with an impressive array of bright students, knowledgeable professors and able administrators? All those advanced human brains connected together by the Internet? So how much sense does it make to say that blind, unthinking Chance just "accidentally" did so through blind, unthinking evolution?
My young school friend pointed out that since we have about 100 trillion cells in our body and each has about 5 feet of DNA, that makes about 100 trillion times 5 feet, or 100 billion times 5000 feet (about a mile), or 100 billion miles of perfect code that is required to make us a body that works. Since the characters (the "letters") that that code is "printed" in are actually the size of molecules, that makes a lot of "typing" to give us a body. Could we type that much without making a mistake, since any mistake would cause a genetic weakness or birth defect? Could blind chance?
Another thing. Ever tried to swat a fly? Not necessarily easy, right? Know why? It has to do with the fly's navigational system. It has a single vibrating rod in its abdomen, and as it changes direction in flight, it senses the changes in the vibrations of that rod and is able to dodge you, fly and land upside down and backwards. What would the Air Force pay to have flying and navigational systems that good?
How did the fly manage to evolve such a system? Even if it evolved the vibrating rod, what good would it be without the nerves to send the signals from the rod to the brain? And the section of the brain to interpret the signals? And the correct instructions to interpret them? And the correct instructions to the part of the brain that controlled the wings as to what to DO about those signals? All AT THE SAME TIME. Wouldn't that be a remarkable coincidence? I ask people, "Could YOU sit down, right now, and write the code for such a set of instructions? And if your ten billion well trained and coordinated neurons put together can't do it, is it really reasonable to think that flies did it by themselves?"
The fly has a complete navigational system that is self-constructing (in its egg), self-reproducing, self-programming, self-correcting, that can fly upside down and backwards, avoiding dangers and locating and recognizing fuel (food), that requires even MORE entire, completely developed systems that even large groups of highly educated humans cannot or are only now beginning to be able to copy (and only by intelligent design), all microminiaturized into a space smaller than the head of a pin, with the code for it in characters that are the size of molecules (I wonder how many characters per inch that works out to? Pretty hi-tech data storage).
So I ask people, "In your experience, how many complete flying and navigational systems do you know of that have happened completely by accident, with no intelligent thought or design?" "Did you ever read the story of all the thought and work needed to design and build a flying machine, as told by the Wright brothers themselves? So how scientific is it to say that it just happened by blind accidents in the case of the lowly, incredibly complex fly?"
All of the animal and plant world is full of examples like these. Your body is, too. Johns Hopkins University made the newspapers by making one enzyme. It must have been pretty hard to do. It was no accident. But your liver manufactures over nine hundred enzymes, all necessary for you to live, and no one thinks about putting THAT in the paper, or giving credit for that accomplishment to the One who deserves it. "Could have happened completely by accident" (which is what evolution equates to, isn't it?) But if it could happen so easily, simply by accidents of evolution, then why put the university in the news because it was able to produce ONE?
On a higher level, when you are amused at a puppy or a kitten playing, enjoy a beautiful sunset, unselfishly help someone else, there is no "survival" value in that. Why do we have these innate abilities and inclinations that have nothing to do with "survival of the fittest," but only serve for our enjoyment or the benefit of others?
So the evidence is that there is a Creator. And the fact that he created not only humans, but bodies that can appreciate and enjoy good food, music, art, marriage, children, and so on takes this Creator out of the realm of a Thing or Creature or Force of some sort and shows that the Creator must care a great deal about us.
Parents communicate with their children. Even computer designers communicate with their inventions. It would only be natural for our Creator to communicate with us, and not just starting today, either. The Bible gives evidence of being such a communication, containing accurate science and principles that produce caring people and secure, happy families, whether rich or poor, when people know it well and obey it.
But as for us being God, I don't know much, but I know that NONE of us is able to design (much less build) a self-constructing, self-programming, self-correcting navigational system, much less a self-reproducing flying machine hooked up to it to use it, microminiaturized into a space the size of a simple fly. And the same could be said for all the parts of our body. If you lose ANYTHING, no one yet can make you another one that works and feels as good as the original. And that includes your built-in 20hz-20,000hz stereo system (your ears), your twin self-focusing, self-adjusting 3-D motion picture cameras (your eyes), digitally interfaced into you own personal PC that is equal to 10,000 contemporary research computers (your brain), that requires no keyboard and you can work just by thinking about it, and that had "Face Recognition" a thousand years ago, a system to fuel your body with taste buds that can enjoy your fuels like ice cream, watermelon, and steak (nothing like it in modern technology), your genuine all-terrain vehicle which can climb walls, mountains, ladders, and go for miles on just a peanut butter bar (your legs, arms, and body). So Whoever created us not only is smart but also very nice to give us all that, FREE. And he deserves all the appreciation we can muster up, don't you think?
(This is only to give evidence of the existence of a God. It does not defend the immoral, unsupported, contradictory and unscientific things that often-mistaken humans have done and taught in the name of God and the Bible...)
For more information, you might want to see http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020608/, "Reconciling God and Science."
Best regards,
Mike