(December 9, 2015 at 10:46 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm)SteveII Wrote: Sorry, the gaps have gotten wider and wider over the past 50 years or so. Since we looked back to the beginning of the universe and looked into the cell.
The current evidence shows that these "gaps" are defects in naturalistic theories. However, that is not the important point. Design is inferred by examining the subject and is not simply an appeal based on ignorance.
What would we be examining the subject looking for? AFAICT it's just an appeal to ignorance.
Inferring design on something is not an appeal to ignorance. If we found a piece of art we infer an artist. If we find a turtle on a fence post we infer that something put him there. If we find 3.1 billion base pairs in a DNA strand that self-replicates, heals, manages the cell's energy factory, and work together with other cells to form systems that communicate, we infer a designer.