Calibrated Thinker writes:
Using that logic an archeologist that digs up previously unknown and unseen types of artifacts cannot be certain that the artifacts are indeed intelligently made, even though it would be obvious even to a small child that the artifact was made by someone at some time in the past.
Actually, we know something like that would be designed because we can either reverse engineer how it was designed, or have examples of similar things that we know ere designed. None of this is true for living organisms. Or perhaps you could reverse engineer for us how they were designed?
If you don't like the Museum or Archeological analogies then consider for a moment what the SETI project is about.
SETI also does not applly here, becuase if we ever picked up a radio signal from aliens, we would probably be able to reverse engineer the kind of transmitter used based on the signal itself.
So, your analogies are false.