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What about the artists responsible for, say, the Easter Island carvings? We cannot see, touch or hear them, and (as far as I know) we have no evidence for their existence apart from their art. Yet we still infer their work is the product of intelligent design.
But we have reasons for that inference.
We have the surviving inhabitants of the island, some of whom have demonstrated at least partial knowledge of the processes by which their ancestors carved and transported the
moai. We can gather used
toki (stone adzes) by the hundreds at the foot of the slope where unfinished
moai still lie, and refuse pits and oven remains indicate the presence of many human workers. We also have history since the first Western arrival (Roggeveen) where the natives lost the social organization to produce them, and each clan turned to knocking down the other's statues, demonstrating their significance to the people (as each represents a specific dead ancestor and was presumably commissioned by him/her while they were alive). In short, we do not just take somebody's word for it, nor do we pull our ideas out of thin air. We can see material evidence of the processes involved in creating the art.
Can you cite some evidence of processes used by an intelligent designer to create a specific organism?
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