(October 14, 2014 at 12:10 am)Darkstar Wrote:poster asked: where is science employed in detecting intelligent design? he didn't asked anything about 'christian' and I didn't post any opinion of seti or panspermia.(October 13, 2014 at 11:06 pm)snowtracks Wrote: for instances: - SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is an exploratory science that seeks evidence of life in the universe by looking for some signature of a designed electrical magnetic technology.
- crick and orgel in their book Directed Panspermia purposed that that thru dna scientific analysis of living organisms, the dna signature could be identified which most likely originated from an alien intelligences that had let 'sailed' micro-organism that reached the earth.
- archaeologist study artifacts produced by human design.
- anthropologists study the bipedal primate fossil records to discriminate between stones that were intelligently designed tools and those formed by forces of nature.
This isn't the kind of "intelligent design" that most Christians are talking about when they use the term. It has nothing whatsoever to do with gods of any sort. Also, I highly doubt that panspermia accepted as true by even a sizable minority of the scientific community, but even if aliens had seeded us, those aliens themselves would have had to have come from somewhere, rendering their "intelligent design" a moot point.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.