Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> You might be surprised to know that most atheists I know are atheist 
>> to the "existing" definitions of gods, but fall all over the line with 
>> respect to how "likely" it is that there is more to the universe, and 
>> what that even "means".
> 
> Here's a thought. I wonder what atheists would say to the question:
> 
> "Do you believe that if there is life elsewhere in the universe, it 
> might have been designed by a higher intelligence?"
> 
> Given how many atheists say things like "I don't believe in God because 
> there's just no evidence in favor", I wonder how many people would 
> answer which way.
> 
Hmm. Depends, what is the "evidence" that it was designed? lol See, we 
know ours wasn't because, well.. Its a fracking mess that, often, works 
only as a result of massive redundancy, and a fair amount of luck, and 
which can be "so" badly messed up that "minor" things can wipe out whole 
species. Such a "designed" intelligence would almost certainly have 
several traits - a) fewer cludges, b) fewer serious problems in its 
function and construction, and c) obvious deviations from "other" known 
life from the same world, which couldn't have developed via "selection", 
at all. Not just, with a lot of tweaks, but.. like.. Its got wings an a 
propeller, so can't have been "derived from a house" kind of 
differences. Things we don't see in life here, where if houses and 
airplanes "evolved" both would have "genes" in them that could be 
switched to get something "close" to a house-plane, even if it was 
worthless as "either".

So, yeah. I don't see scientists having any problem, once they worked 
out the details, assuming its genetics where different enough to make 
hard to work out, or even from its "lack" of major structural flaws, 
like wrong facing knees, eyes that are wired backwards, throats designed 
so eating can stop you breathing, etc., they would have little problem 
recognizing the difference.

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
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