lpetrich writes:
Furthermore, there are numerous features of the Earth's biota that suggest multiple, finite, and fallible designers. The multi-design inference, as it may be called, is often used in studies of various human designs, studies like detection of plagiarism and handwriting forgery.
That is a very interesting argument(mainly a reductio)against mainstream ID theory, and should probably be started as its own thread.
Personally I would love to see an ID explanation against this. All the main ID theorists say that current science used to detect that "someone did something" can be used to detect that "someone did life". Well then that logically means science can detect whether multiple creators were involved, using the tools science uses to do that in daily life.
I know for certain that scientists have been using analytical techniques to determine such things as if Beowulf was written by more than one person (they've determined it was), and at different times (still up in the air).
So why not if there had to be mutliple creators (it seems likely there would have to be) and at what times they intervened (the multiple extinctions/gaps between static equilibiria?).
Then again, the ID theorist might simply claim that God is so diverse he would seem to be many different creators, unlike man who is forced to have only a limited style of creativity.
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