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The Detection of Intelligent Design
 
Simple Stuff Nature Cannot Do
 
Sean D. Pitman, MD
© May 2008
 
 
Not knowing how somethingwas created is not evidence of intelligentdesign. This is a common and apparentlyreasonable argument. I hear it all thetime from very smart people. It makessense - even to me. There is a problemwith it however. We do know how certaintypes of phenomena
could 
have beendesigned with deliberate intent while we have no idea how they could have been designedwithout deliberate intent. A rather simplistic idea - right? Yet, this simple concept is in factthe basis for all mainstream sciences that search for intelligent design - to includeanthropology, forensics, and yes, evenSETIscience.
 
 
TakeSETIscientists for example. SETI scientistsare looking for a particular type of radiosignal comingfrom outer space. If theyfind the type of signal theyare looking for, they willactually announce that theyhave found evidence of non-human intelligentactivity in thisuniverse. How could theypossibly say this basedonly on a radiosignal without having ever met their proposed designer? Hmmmmm? Thebasis for their argument is very interesting - - and very simple. They are looking for a typeof radiosignal that they know humans could make but that is well beyond anything that anyknown non-deliberate process of nature could make. The type of signal they are looking for is actually quite simple - a signal with a narrow bandspectrum (seeLink).It is kind of like other simple objects that humanscould make but nature cannot make - like a highlysymmetrical polished granite cube measuring, say, 10 x10 x 10 meters. Such a cube, even if found on an alienplanet by one of our rovers, would be highly suggestiveof deliberate intelligent design. Why is that? Because
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