FiverBeyond
New Member
Hey there, folks,
The title is just a hook: I firmly feel that Intelligent Design is non-science (heck, even anti-science) and have especially laughed at their attempts to compare it to archeology or forensics. ID cannot be compared to these fields for vital, obvious reasons.
However, I admit that it's a little trickier for me to explain why a hypothetical signal from the stars doesn't prove the ID point. I love the idea of one day finding a string of prime numbers being beep from a nearby star system, and at face value I agree that the only known fact about the signal would be that whoever sent it was 'intelligent'. I might also blurp out many ID-sounding catchphrases... "Since there's no known natural cause of prime numbers, we can affirm that they are of intelligent origin, etc".
I've made one or two counter arguments that I think address this issue, but I want to know what you all think. Wouldn't an alien radio signal be a clear case of 'intelligent design'?
The title is just a hook: I firmly feel that Intelligent Design is non-science (heck, even anti-science) and have especially laughed at their attempts to compare it to archeology or forensics. ID cannot be compared to these fields for vital, obvious reasons.
However, I admit that it's a little trickier for me to explain why a hypothetical signal from the stars doesn't prove the ID point. I love the idea of one day finding a string of prime numbers being beep from a nearby star system, and at face value I agree that the only known fact about the signal would be that whoever sent it was 'intelligent'. I might also blurp out many ID-sounding catchphrases... "Since there's no known natural cause of prime numbers, we can affirm that they are of intelligent origin, etc".
I've made one or two counter arguments that I think address this issue, but I want to know what you all think. Wouldn't an alien radio signal be a clear case of 'intelligent design'?