From: Stephen E. Jones <sejones@iinet.net.au>
[...]
>[SETI is basically a search
>for intelligent design, and the comment that "it's highly scientific"
applies
>equally to ID too!]
My thanks to Stephen for confirming that mainstream scientists do not rule
out intelligent design on philosophical grounds.
There's nothing unscientific about searching for ID. What's unscientific is
claiming to have found ID based on bogus arguments. I'm sure many SETI
researchers would love to demonstrate the existence of extraterrestrial ID,
but, being scientists, they patiently go about the task of searching for
evidence, rather than running a propaganda camapign claiming to have found
evidence when there is none.
BTW, I'll be on holiday in Greece for the next two weeks [ :-) ], so you
won't be hearing from me for a while.
Richard Wein (Tich)
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