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Does the existence of humans increase the plausibility of other kinds of designers?

This is a question that I’ve been trying to wrap my head around that can be best illustrated as an example. SETI is a project that tries to monitor radio signals to detect extraterrestrial intelligence. It tries to detect certain sequences of prime…
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Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify belief in a designer?

Suppose you looked out at the night sky and saw the stars literally spell out a sentence saying, “God is real.” Now, as a thought experiment, let’s assume that you could somehow know that a) this isn’t a hallucination and b) humans could not have…
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If you had no knowledge of other humans, would seeing a human designed artifact imply design?

Let’s use the example of a watch. Suppose for whatever reason you were not aware of the existence of other humans or factories or any methods known to create watches. Perhaps this could be the result of you being abandoned by your parents or…
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Does the emergence of language count as "intelligent design"?

Suppose language evolved through some kind of natural, iterative process... pre-linguistic humans or their ancestors developed over time. Does this count as "intelligent design" ? So would intelligent design advocates agree that a process like this…
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Do responses to the design argument for god beg the question?

Evolution by explaining the diversity of species is historically taken to refute or atleast lower the plausibility of species being designed by a being. The success of physics and other phenomena that we thought to be impossible or unexplainable by…
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Is design harder to rule out than the lack of it?

This is something that I was thinking of recently that seems to give an almost apriori advantage to design believers and wanted to know if there’s a fallacy here or if this is sound. Suppose that one finds no evidence of design behind an item, say,…
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