Rob,
What is frustrating for folks like me, is that the designer is by definition a spiritual being. So methodological naturalism does effectively eliminate the designer.
Why can't an omnipotent spiritual being materialise & do miracles under lab conditions?
Why is that not a legitimate inference even without the exact material causes, when methodological naturalism is assuned to be valid without the material causes?
It is a valid inference, it's just untested. And it's the untested part that makes it null & void. I could make a valid inference that god must be designed, but without evidence it gets put on the same shelf as the fairies, kraken, unicorns & the rest of the gods.
Mark
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