These are a few different species of ducks....one can only marvel at their artistic designs and color schemes.
one can only marvel at their artistic designs and color schemes.
As opposed to what? What do non-designed things look like?
Why do you have an expectation of what should and shouldn't exist with or without a creator?What even gives you the nerve? You don't have a non-creator-made universe to compare this one to.
Just because you find something in nature to be beautiful, doesn't mean it was designed. You're only invoking design because you don't understand a particular phenomenon that you see before you. But the truth is, in order for you to be able to say something
looks designed, you have to have a known non-designed thing to compare it to. Otherwise, all you know is that stuff exists and has a set of features. The problem becomes even worse when you're claiming that a deity designed everything, including the ugly stuff in nature. So what are you comparing this duck to? A pile of rocks? That God also supposedly made?
It doesn't matter in the end. As it turns out, science DOES have an explanation as to why these birds look the way they do. As answered already, it's called sexual selection. These birds look beautiful because the females aren't willing to get knocked up with the ugly ones. Therefore, the ugly ones don't get an opportunity to get the females pregnant and create ugly babies.
Sounds far less ideal or divine when you put it that way, right? But it's the truth. We humans have done the same thing to each other to an extant, and we've also done the same thing to many breeds of domestic dog (though it's not sexual, but it's still selection based on aesthetic appeal).