[2nsdammit]

You mean like the "hands-off" experiment we are doing daily, building all those anti-biotic resistant microbes in nature (our bodies)?

Of course they are setting up the experiment on purpose - that's how science works. They come up with a prediction, based on the prevailing science, set up an experiment which they predict will give a particular outcome, then watch it run.

[mikeus_maximus]

Of course they are setting up the experiment on purpose - that's how science works. They come up with a prediction, based on the prevailing science, set up an experiment which they predict will give a particular outcome, then watch it run. They purposely mutate a microbe to exist in designer environment. Call me when they observe, or even intelligently cause, speciation into a higher lifeform.

[Quark2005]

Of course they are setting up the experiment on purpose - that's how science works.

If you don't reproduce it in a lab, some people will complain it can't occur in nature because it's never been seen by intervening intelligent observers.

Reproduce it in a lab, some people will complain it can't occur in nature because seeing it required intelligent observers to intervene.

You can't win with some people.