Kelly. J. Wilson writes:
If evidence is interpreted as showing design in living organisms, then is it truly unscientific to conclude that there was a Designer?
Big key word here is the initial "IF" ... for certainly evidence can be interpreted to meet a number of different ideologies. The question is how does the evidence really match the interpretation, how valid is the interpretation.
Take a kaleidoscope: looking in one end you see a pretty pattern that shows clear design elements of symmetry and structure, a pattern that would obviously be designed if it were a stained glass window.
Look in the other end and you see a purely random jumble of colored beads with no structure or symmetry.
Look inside and you see that the apparent symmetry and structure come from the mechanism that was used to observe the beads, the angle and placement of the mirrors.
Thus to infer a designer you need to eliminate every other possibility through a thorough scientific process, including evaluation of things NOT known yet. To leave any one science out of the mix, to leave any one avenue of scientific inquiry out of the mix is to only look through one end of the kaleidoscope.
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