The Watchmaker: my fav argument

[John 6IX Breezy]

An operational definition is 'a description of something in terms of the operations (procedures, actions, or processes) by which it could be observed and measured'.

I agree; but such a measurable description exists for my use of designability. Things are designable if they can be modeled, replicated, simulated, mentally constructed, etc. (Each of which has a measurable and observable quantity.)

The problem is that the forum wants a similar description for the absence of these descriptions, beyond just saying there's an absence. I think this is because the forum wants to predict the null hypothesis, instead of the alternative hypothesis (designability), which is often frowned upon in statistics. Significance tests don't provide evidence for the null hypothesis—you can't draw very strong conclusions from studies that don't show significant results.

Operational definitions, I would say, allow us to measure the alternative hypothesis, not define the null hypothesis.

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By coincidence I happen to have recently re-read the first 8 chapters of Job (KJV); but I missed the verse indicating there might be other planets. I would be very interested if you would elaborate on that.

It is an inference into Job 1:6. We see a meeting where the Sons of God (angels or other representatives) appear before God. Satan appears as the representative of our planet. And so it's possible that these other Sons of God likewise represent their own planets.