Post your opinions, eh?
I personally have problems with intelligent design because a) it's a total cop-out and b) it's being used as a front for sneaking some Christian values back into the curriculum of science classes, which is totally
not cool.
On the other hand, Darwin's evolution doesn't even apply to the "origin of life" question. It's used to describe the process that brought life from a single cell to a human being, and for that it works perfectly and intuitively. We can see it at work all around us.
However, Darwin never claimed that his theory would apply to the genesis of the first life form to exist, just a cell floating around in a primordial soup. This is where intelligent design claims to have the answer.
Therefore, if you don't believe in evolution, you're a total douchebag. If you do believe in evolution but don't think it accounts for that first cell, you have a good point.
Intelligent Design is still a dumb conclusion to reach, though. It's a scientific dead end. What we need are new theories that don't declare themselves to be the final word, like this one:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0130_030130_originslife.html
We just have to remember that early life was nothing like the complex cells we can see under a microscope today. All those weird little molecular machines working inside our cells had plenty of time over trillions and trillions of generations of cells to spontaneously put themselves together. The first cell to exist might not even have been a cell- it probably existed in a form we haven't even considered yet. Just because we can slap some complex animal cell into a
