The following beautiful short film describes some of the amazing features of spiders in general and orb weaver spiders in particular. As you watch it you might ponder how such an astounding organism with such a tiny brain can "know" to do all that it instinctively does.
You might wonder, too, how its instinctive behaviors could've evolved through purely undirected, blind, and random processes, and not only its behavior but also all of the anatomical structures and functions necessary for the spider's mode of life.
If something looks like it was intelligently engineered, and if the alternative to intelligent engineering (undirected, unintelligent forces) is exceedingly implausible, then intelligent engineering should, at the very least, be considered a viable hypothesis.
In fact, the only reason one could have for not considering intelligent agency to be the most likely hypothesis is an apriori philosophical commitment to naturalism, but that's not a move based on science. It's not a move grounded in evidence, but is rather the intellectual expression of an irrational aversion to any suggestion that ultimate reality is immaterial and non-physical.
The video is produced by the John 10:10 Project and is about 8:00 minutes long:
