Ben Stein's Movie EXPELLED - Could we have been "designed" by Space

Hi folks,

An implication from Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence
Allowed" for me was that "intelligent design" _need not_ require "God
language" but simply a designer, the designer simply being an older,
higher intelligence -- "space aliens" ;-)

LOL :-) ... but seriously, would not allowing for the _possibility_
that some of our biological structures / processes (especially on the
cellular level) were products of design rather than simply random
processes could actually help us better understand ourselves.

Consider simply "self aware" computer in the future.  Would it not
help the self-aware computer better understand itself, its origins,
and even its flaws if it were open to the possibility that it was at
least partially designed by an "older, higher intelligence" (the
computer engineers that built it) rather than simply random processes?

Now how would one discern that a particular biological process was the
product of "intelligent design" rather than simply random processes.
Archeologists, anthropologists and more recently primatologists and
even zoologists have had to discern occasionally whether a particular
rock, bone or twig was simply a rock, bone or twig or exhibited
evidence of having been intelligently altered and used as a tool.
Perhaps molecular biologists could learn from their colleagues in
those fields to come up with some protocols seeking to discern whether
particular molecular biological structures processes exhibit evidence
of prior engineering / design.  Or microbiologists could ask
themselves how they would discern from observation that an organism
was partially engineered by a geneticist or simply the product of
random processes.

Indeed, discerning the presence of "engineering" in microorganisms may
be useful in the future in discerning whether a future epidemic was
the result of natural causes or intended biological attack...

Interesting, huh? ;-)

Dennis
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