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12-20-2009 8:45 PM


In What exactly is ID: Design of the Rosetta Stone I offered two ways to detect design when studying a possible artifact:
1: We see direct evidence of the Designer in other ways that are easily linked to the artifact. For instance we find similar artifacts in graves or near paintings depicting the creation or use of the artifact.
2: We can clearly identify the purpose for the artifact. I admit that this is potentially tricky. Maybe the artifact looks like something we recognize and still use but without context there's a possibility we are mistaken.
The person I was posting to failed to engage the discussion honestly, but I'd still like to discuss this idea. How do we identify design when we see it? I'd like to focus on real applications instead of Dembski's imaginary formulas, but if someone insists that CSI has utility then I'd be happy to listen to someone describing a real-world application.
Are there other ways to show that something is the result of design?
I'd like to see this in the Intelligent Design Forum please.

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