Let us take a minute to ponder the graphic that is on top of this blog. I have enlarged it here:



This fountain is situated in the physical sciences niche on campus, between Reines Hall and Rowland Hall [lengthy historical sidenote: these buildings were named after two of UCI's Nobel Prize winners who got the award in the same year, making UCI the first public university to win two NPs in separate areas in one year]. This fountain is shaped in such a way that it distributes water into an infinity figure, when you look at it from an aerial perspective. Also notice the two ducks who have decided to take over this pond. I just happened to have a digital camera on me the day I saw this picturesque scene.

Now here comes my intuitive (a.k.a. hand-waving) argument for design:
1. This fountain is elegant and complex.
2. The ducks are more elegant and more complex than the fountain.
3. If X is more elegant and more complex than Y, then X is more likely to be designed than Y.
4. The fountain was likely to be designed.
5. The ducks were more likely to be designed.