>Therefore, if there is no real limitation of science to study the *effect*
of an
>Intelligent Designer on the natural world, but Intelligent Design continues
>to be ruled out of consideration anyway, then what is really being maintained
>is not methodological naturalism but *metaphysical* naturalism.
studying things like anthropology, forensic science, and SETI presuppose an
intelligent designer against the backdrop of a natural, undesigned world.
That's how Paley could distinguish the designed pocket watch from the rock
to the left of it and the starfish to the right of it.
If the entire universe is designed, it would be undetectible because there
would be nothing undesigned to compare it to.
Sorry, Intelligent Design of the universe is still a religious artifact.
Susan
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