Intelligent Designers & Creators

Just the fact that the prostate gland surrounds the urethra, that it usually swells in old age thus putting pressure on the urethra and making it difficult to urinate shows a lack of Intelligent Design. But I want to focus here on the common, philosophical argument for an Intelligent Designer or for God. In the history of philosophy, it is called "The Argument from Design." It goes something like this: "The world is so complex and so beautiful and organized that there just has to be a God!" or, more recently, "....there must have been an Intelligent Designer behind it all!" The problem for any believer in a Bible-based religion who uses this argument is that it does not prove the existence of the biblical God. In the 18th Century David Hume wrote a book called "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" in which he showed why the argument just can't get you from your awe over the beauty and complexity of nature to the existence of the Lord God of the Bible: even if it did prove that there is intelligence behind the creation, it would fall short of telling you if that intelligence was the biblical or some other god. It leaves open the possibility that the designer and the creator were not one and the same or that there were two or more of each. It can't tell you if the intelligence(s) behind the creation were perfect or good or just or all-knowing or omnipresent or whether it (or they) practices "hard love" or ever incarnated as a Jewish tekton (the Greek word most folks mistakenly take to mean carpenter). It can't tell you whether or not the creation was assigned by God as a joke to a committee of adolescent gods or for some other reason. 
     Personally, although I can't support any particular belief about divinity, I've found myself most at home  with Hindu conceptions of it. They resemble Christian theologian Paul Tillich's idea that God is not a being at all but the ground of all being. Historian of religion Karen Armstrong seems to confer. I myself have no conception of it, however easily I'm able to slip into the role of Tevya (in "Fiddler on the Roof") and treat God as someone I could have a casual conversation with. In the end, it is, for me, just mystery