I reckon that places the reality ball firmly in my court, then. Why you feel so obligated to avoid reality is one of those mysteries that science will never solve.
"I reckon that places the reality ball firmly in my court, then. Why you feel so obligated to avoid reality is one of those mysteries that science will never solve."
No, it means anything can be *evidence* of your hypothesis. Your *feeling* isn't scientific, it's mystical. You can't even hypothetically imagine a fact that could go against your feeling. Your feeling has absolutely zero practical value. If the world was completely disorganized, you would say it was designed. Why not? Anything could be design according to you. Order, chaos; all the same.
I the designer is capable of creating a given artifact he/she/it can easily emulate nature. There's the rub. If you, as most IDIsts are wont to do, create a mutually exclusive and exhaustive dichotomy of designed or natural, the ability to emulate pretty much makes it impossible to determine an artifact's true origin.