08 Jul '13 13:45>
It may just LOOK LIKE intelligent design because it IS so.
Say we have a room where there is a table and some hundreds of coins scattered randomly across the table.
We have locks on the door and cameras on the doors for 24 hours. We know no one can enter or exit the room for 24 hours.
Yet at the end of that period we go into the room and find the coins nearly arranged in pennies together, nickels together, dimes together, quarters together, and half dollars together - all in stacks.
The evidence, we have to admit, points to intelligence. It is less likely that an earthquake shook the coins into denominational stacks.
Now we haven't a CLUE as to HOW someone got into the room to arrange the coins intelligently. Not a clue ! But that does not effect the validity of the realization that intelligence has arranged the scattered coins though we do not know how he, she, or it entered the room to do so.
It looks like intelligence was at work probably because intelligence WAS at work. How is still a mystery. But intelligence is more plausible than ascertaining some kind of room shaking arranged the coins logically.
Say we have a room where there is a table and some hundreds of coins scattered randomly across the table.
We have locks on the door and cameras on the doors for 24 hours. We know no one can enter or exit the room for 24 hours.
Yet at the end of that period we go into the room and find the coins nearly arranged in pennies together, nickels together, dimes together, quarters together, and half dollars together - all in stacks.
The evidence, we have to admit, points to intelligence. It is less likely that an earthquake shook the coins into denominational stacks.
Now we haven't a CLUE as to HOW someone got into the room to arrange the coins intelligently. Not a clue ! But that does not effect the validity of the realization that intelligence has arranged the scattered coins though we do not know how he, she, or it entered the room to do so.
It looks like intelligence was at work probably because intelligence WAS at work. How is still a mystery. But intelligence is more plausible than ascertaining some kind of room shaking arranged the coins logically.