Current scientific dogma continues to embrace the concept of evolution to explain the existence of life, including humanity. How would you explain its merits in comparison to the concept of intelligent design?

It is important to state at the outset here that the idea of evolution as a leading theory and underpinning of much of current mainstream scientific thinking is entirely a false notion. There really is no such thing as evolution except for a very minor influence in producing some subtle changes in some species due to environmental pressures, and so on. The idea of intelligent design is divinely inspired because it does in fact describe how life came about, as well as the diversity of species you see in wonderment. Each was crafted through an intellectual process to decide on the makeup of the organism in question, its attributes, and how it needed to be designed and engineered to be a successful part of the ecosphere. The idea of adaptation through natural selection is not the major reason for species coming and going and a series of similar species seeming to gain function and optimization of their form and capabilities. When that is clearly shown, as in the fossil record, it is because of intelligent design taking a good idea and making it better through a deliberate alteration of the makeup genetically and energetically. What you see in nature is the hand of the divine, much like an artist sculpting not the landscape but everything on it that lives. The planet, by and large, has been little changed directly but more from within its own potential and the working of geologic forces and the environment through the energy of sunlight and erosion from wind and water, but the biosphere was designed totally and to take into account the environmental pressures the organisms would be subjected to, and to optimize things sufficiently to ensure reasonable lifespan and survival as a species. The slavish adherence to evolution to explain many scientific observations is simply a kind of knee-jerk response—that itself is a consequence of mind control manipulation by the Extraterrestrial Alliance who do not want you thinking about deep thoughts that would reinforce religious notions. This is not because they themselves believe in God, but do not want you using your mind to focus on making things better, and that is what happens through prayer. They fear human prayer because they know things will happen as a consequence. They do not believe it is truly an outreach to a higher power. They think it is the power of human consciousness coming into an alignment with others embracing the same desires and it is the power of human consciousness that brings about miracles. That is why they work to suppress spirituality as a pursuit, they know it gives humans power and that, they want to deny.