Originally Posted by
fj1200
To both; that is opinion. I may happen to agree but design is not a question of science IMO.
No, those are logical conclusions based on scientific evidence.
Good science makes conclusions based on the evidence, it's only supposed to change when new evidence piles up in another area to make another conclusion MORE likely.
In this case YOU are -a priori- using faith to assume there's materialist only conclusion based on YET to be found evidence to explain it what appears to be designed.
Your assuming materialism = science instead of assuming science = finding WHATEVER the facts are.
the thing is the SCINCE TODAY leads to the conclusion of DESIGN and DESIGNER. miraculous accidents have hit scientific and logical brick walls.
It's like someone who lives on an island with 4 known people left and they've decided that ALL deaths going forward are ONLY by accident or natural causes. But they find someone dead and the other 3 were together during the time death, but the death doesn't look like and accident. There are stab wounds in the back, writing on the body, the body dressed in cloths no one on the island can make or has ever seen, and the body put into an upright position in a chair on the roof of a house.
Sure there MAY be a way to find out how it all happened by accident or natural causes ONE DAY, but is that the BEST or an honest answer?
If one wants to cling to the idea that one of the remaining 3 did it even though there's NO WAY anyone could have because there was no time, they don't have the strength, the tools, the writing pens, inks or the motives. If they still want to cling to the idea that there's NO ONE else on the island they can. but it's AGAINST the available evidence. This death doesn't add up to accident it adds up to murder.
It's not "just opinion." It looks like someone else is on the island.
In a murder case if the evidence leads to ONE suspect it doest matter if most trained detectives on the case "believe" the usual suspects actually did it. And believe they'll find out how their favorite suspects REALLY did it one day even though they all have airtight alibis.
It doesn't change the facts of the case where they significantly and definitely point to someone they'd rather not suspect.
Design and codes are the product of minds, it's the ONLY known source of code...ever observed. there's no other source.
As SETI acts on scientifically, if you find code you KNOW there's intelligence.
it's not an just a baseless "opinion", it's the logical conclusion, a rational deduction, the only thing that makes sense based on what's observed.
Last edited by revelarts; 12-17-2015 at 06:30 AM.
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