Look what I found when I went to the first page of the Atheist forum!! My favorite argument for an intelligent designer.
“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.” C.S. Lewis
The problem with this crude formulation of the argument is that it completely fails to acknowledge the non-random role of selection in evolution. Of course a purely random event is highly unlikely to produce a reliable mind or an accurate map of London. But suppose there were a naturally-occurring iterative procedure whereby whatever small part of the spilled milk that did look a bit like London were kept, and the rest cleaned up and spilled again. Then, if repeated over millions of trials, one could easily eventually end up with a map of London.
How easy would it be? What would the probability be of that happening? Why would your formulation be better than Lewis'?
How can natural selection be anything but random if there is no intelligence involved in the "selecting"?
Could it also make an image of Christ on the cross?
Lewis is considering how a natural process works with the basic building blocks of nature to bring about a brain that can think immaterial thoughts. How can random chemicals and atoms moving around in our brain, like the circuit board of a computer program, produce a consiousness that reasons, imagines things it has not seen, and expresses those thoughts in spoken words? How did it all come together in such a way as to make us the way we are? How do we know that constant spillage will bring about something amazing with structure and purpose?
For those of us who have met our Creator and understand that our immaterial souls are made in his image...it all makes sense. We have meaning, purpose, and a future hope after the physical dies. We can trust what we think because our consciousnesses are not made of atoms and are not affected by the laws of nature. Our minds are the way they are because we are his children, all of us, and we are like Him.