One example of this problem is the creation versus evolution controversy. I believe that the point of contention is not over the age of the earth or the age of life on earth. The contention is over how life came into existence. We see design in buildings, computers, automobiles, pencils, and countless other things. Yet living cells, which are much more complex and packed with more information than any human creation supposedly came into being without any external design.
Life is based on chemistry.
Chemists have done wonderful things to make life easier and more enjoyable. These achievements required hard work and lots of intelligent design. As a chemist, I have observed no tendency in chemicals to come togther to make wonderful things. Wonderful things have been made and continue to be made, but intelligence as well as hard and painstaking work is necessary. This tendency is opposed by complicated mechanisms of repair and regeneration which keeps the organism together far beyond the life of the individual organic chemicals.