(July 29, 2015 at 7:12 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 5:20 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: If the symbols are shown to be repeatable or have a pattern to them or appear to carry meaning, yes I must deduce an intelligent agency. I would liken this to cave drawings or hieroglyphics. I cannot decipher them, but they clearly carry meaning and I cannot logically deduce that it occurred naturally.
So then what on earth are you actually using to deduce agency at all? If it's not intelligibility, or complexity, or even the available evidence, then what is informing these deductions? Seems to me you'll just assume agency at every turn, based on very little at all.
Pulsars emit radiation very, very regularly, in an orderly pattern, but there is no linguistic intent involved.
