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I'm assuming you implicitly mean all machines. I don't doubt you could recognise a human built machine, but all machines.....?
That flagellum looks like it could be taken out of a manual on how to rebuild a car. It looks like a human designed machine to me. And that's what the Bible says: Evidence of God is in creation. I do think this is ultimately faith alone and if I had my way, neither would be taught as Science.
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Evolution doesn't have the information to tell you how a flagellae evolved, but then you can't tell me how a creator did it, either.
No, I cannot. But I am content with "God created it."
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This would require an ID for the ID, non?
I am also content with things beyond my comprehension. One thing I thought of recently to explain this to myself is this:
Something created man. Something created that. Something created that... on to infinity. God is infinite. So God rather than create something, to create something, to create man... just created man directly.
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I digress. This is is the traditional staple of the creationist. A God of the gaps argument. I can't see how this could occur naturally, so it didn't.
Actually, creationists avoid the God of the gaps argument. That's why I reject Evolution being put into the Bible. The more Man tries to explain the world without God, the more the Bible must fit Man's ideas -- thus becoming a God of the gaps.
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If you're so sure you can infer design, then tell me how you tell the difference between a naturally occurring system, & a designed one. Think carefully.
I can tell you if some thing are designed. I cannot tell you if something is not designed.
Designed:
"Hello world! How the heck are you!? Want to go play in the park?"
Don't know if it was designed:
"yasccibybfoadnasomynamdqm"
Is that what you mean? Maybe you can give me examples of naturally occuring and designed systems.
David