[CarolinaGuitarman]

"There would have been a time between discovery and decoding, when we wouldn't know for sure what those markings indicated. But there would have been essentially no doubt that this was the work of man."

Because we have extensive knowledge of people writing things and making markings. It would also have to do with where we found these tablets; finding them in an obvious human settlement with other tools and such would also give us great reason to think they were man-made.

"Not in the way that you mean, for the reasons I explained."

ID most certainly needs to be tested. You can't just make assertions and expect anybody to take them seriously without there being any way to test them. Problem is, there is no way to test ID.

" We knew what the Rosetta Stone would look like before we found it?"


We knew that people write, and that tablets found in human settlements are very likely of human origin. We then test that hypothesis, like ALL scientific theories have to be.

I take it you have no idea what a designed organism would look like compared to an evolved organism, which was my question. This is where your analogy breaks down, because we DO have a ton of background knowledge on what human writing would be like, and where we would expect to find it.

[inquest]

Because we have extensive knowledge of people writing things and making markings.

We also have knowledge of markings being made by natural forces. And we can know, from our knowldege of how natural forces make markings, that the cuneiform tablet I showed you was at least 99.99% unlikely to have been made by nature.

It would also have to do with where we found these tablets; finding them in an obvious human settlement with other tools and such would also give us great reason to think they were man-made.

We'd have come to the same conclusion about it if we found the thing on Mars instead.

I take it you have no idea what a designed organism would look like compared to an evolved organism, which was my question.

I'm not among those actively promoting the theory, but I'd say that a designed organism would be one whose features no fathomable naturalistic explanation could explain, just as with the tablets.