If you don't see the ridiculousness of a situation where one could not infer the presence of intelligent artifact design on a planet full of intelligent designers, then I don't understand what there is to discuss
BUT, in
general, rather than the
specific analogy, there is an automatic hinderance of an intelligence via the God of the Gaps. The point remains even if the analogy isn't the best of analogies.
The reason we reject intelligent design for the origin of life is because there are no known designers except for humans (and some other modern organisms), and none of them were around 4 billion years ago. It's pretty simple, really.
It seems simple ofcourse.
There are no known instances of evolution except for on earth, but do you reject life on other worlds?
Surely you don't apply this logic pertaining to other universes? I'm sure you see them as possible. Is it fair to see a mind as possible rather than rejecting him?
In each case we have one case. One example of a designer. One example of a universe. One example of evolution.
See the problem if you look at this from a Columbo-perspective?
Do you apply a double standard when it comes to the
mind.
(P.S. I'n not entirely in disagreement with you, I just thought ppl were ganging up on Guidobaba).
This message has been edited by mike the wiz, 11-29-2005 09:38 PM