>>>The attempts are lampooned immediately by recognizing that science ALREADY
>allows intelligent designers, and always has. Intelligent designers show up
>in archaeology, in SETI research, and in the Piltdown case, to name a few.>>
>
Burgy responded
>It is not intelligent designers that are disallowed -- only
>the supernatural.
>
>Perhaps a case could be made for an alien intelligence who
>stopped by our planet and made a bunch of life forms. The problem
>is that there is little/no evidence that this happened. SETI
>work may change this, of course.
>
In archaeology, or in attempting to uncover a fraud like the Piltdown hoax,
we have some understanding of the characteristics of the "designers". They
are human and, being human ourselves, we have some confidence that we can
identify the work of other humans. When the designer is not human --
definitely in the case of God, who knows in the case of Extraterrestials --
identifying their work is likely to be far more difficult.
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