RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 30, 2014 at 4:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 4:56 pm by Heywood.)
(May 30, 2014 at 4:47 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(May 30, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Heywood Wrote: All life on this earth, including every cell in my body, all of it descends from a Universal Common Ancestor.Indeed...which..so far as we can tell....did not have any sort of "intellect" going for it whatsoever. Try again.
The intellect that made the watch found on the beach....he or she is no where to be found....yet you still know the watch was made by an intellect.
If SETI finds a signal and determines it of intelligent alien origin, they don't need to see the intelligent aliens. Why? Because certain kinds of signals are always observed to be the products of intellect and never observed to be the products of nature. That's how SETI will differentiate a designed signal and one that is produced by nature.
The rule we use to determine what is designed and what isn't, doesn't require the intellect to present. Only the intellects product need be present and our previous experience with those kinds of things.
Atheists need some means of determining what is designed and what isn't that doesn't rely on our experience.
