Current status/developments in Intelligent Design Theory

holmes writes:

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Indeed what the hell is natural design in bioterrorism? Are they saying how to detect if we are facing a manufactured virus vs a naturally occuring one?

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Yes, we can, to some extent.Of course, we do it by examining the virus and comparing it to everything we know about that particular virus as it occurs naturally and looking for anomalies that cannot be explained through evolutionary processes.The concept of detecting design is legitimate. The problem is that life doesn't look designed. It's too messy and disorganized. Nothing gets thrown away. Designed things have efficiency and simplicity. Things get thrown away in order to tack on something completely foreign to the previous structure.That's the saddest part: The reason that we can tell that it was designed is because we have already established that they evolve.

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Rrhain
WWJD? JWRTFM!

Charles Knight asks:

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I fail to see the SETI connection that they make

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It is an effort to detect design. The SETI project scans the radio spectrum for distinct signals that seemingly can only be made by a deliberate, conscious entity rather than a naturally occurring process. Thus, they would then be claiming that it is possible to come up with a method of detecting design and applying it to how life diversified on this planet.Remember, their argument is that life looks designed. That begs the questions of what "design" looks like and whether or not one could detect it.Of course, the methodology of SETI for detecting signal from the noise is inapplicable to ID, but they are using it as an attempt to glean legitimacy.

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Rrhain
WWJD? JWRTFM!