The Watchmaker: my fav argument

[polymath257]

Very well, we may disagree on some details but I'd like to address another argument that you made earlier:

But, to go further and claim the universe at large is designed goes *way* beyond what we can observe.

And you know that because? Your argument mirrors that of the behaviorists which claimed cognition was an unobservable black box—that's no longer true. From atoms to the neuron doctrine, science is full of once unobservable entities that had to be inferred. Your inability to think of an observation has no bearing on the question.

OK, propose an observation. I'm certainly willing to listen.

What sort of observation would lead to the conclusion of design?

That is the basic question that has to be answered. Without that, no design claim can even get off the ground.