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Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life
KIdPanda writes "Prompted by pictures of man-made structures in the Utah desert, a SETI astronomer explains the sometimes-ambiguous difference between seeing the hand of God, alien intelligence, or nature. 'In my photographs, Shostak's SETI-trained eye — standing in for a pattern-crunching computer program — searched for an unexpected increase in visual order (or, in thermodynamic terms, a decrease in entropy caused by the rebellion of life against universal decay). A road or a tended field is mathematically simpler than a mountainous jumble or naturally varied vegetation. ... But there's an obvious problem: nothing is simpler than a sweep of blue sky, or the inky blackness of space. If simplicity is the benchmark, space itself is evidence of design."
Intelligent design is a crock. Its just re-badged Christian Creationist crap. The whole ID Movement is a political movement started by Christians to use psuedo-scientific methods to try and make Creationism sound intelligent (Youtube a guy named Thunderf00t)
There is nothing intelligently designed about our universe. Shit works because, well, if it didn't work, we wouldn't be standing her talking about it. It works because of the sheer necessity that if it didn't work, the universe would fail.
will repel or dumb-by-design redneck republican wannabe overlords...
It's actually really simple.
Atheists believe they are themselves, gods. Let them scientifically prove it by staying alive.
Intellectually or Physically, I don't give a shit. :P
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