 If the designer can make – and rightfully takes credit for — the very complex and good, then the designer could prevent — and by its failure is properly criticized for – the very simple and awful. The problems in theology are as grim as are those in science. (The intelligent design theorists have provided work for many philosophers eager to refute them. Pennock 1988 and Sober 2000 are good places to start. See the entry on   teleological notions in biology.)