Better take another look . . .

Intelligent design means that various forms of life began abruptly through an intelligent agency with their distinctive features already intact, fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks and wings, etc.

— Excerpt from an intelligent-design textbook, Of Pandas and People.

Well, let me just say this about that: When the female of my son's parakeet pair turned "broody," we were thrilled and bought a nesting box for the safe keeping of eggs and such, and waited. In the middle of one spring night we heard a raucous peeping that meant there were babies, and it was exciting, to say the least.

After a couple of days we lifted the top of the box to peek into the nest, and beheld the pink, naked little baby birds. Most amazing of all — and here's my point — those babies looked for all the world like the newborn mice we'd welcomed into the world a couple of years before: pink little bodies with over-sized heads with squealing mouths; four little stems waving away where someday, in this case, there would be little birdie feet and wee wings.

Why would an intelligent "designer" keep using the same template?