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The Lost One
I didn't assume complexity equals designed. I assumed maximal, theoretically near-infinite complexity, combined with the likelihood of most mutations to be not beneficial, and working against natural law/entropy, etc. equals designed. Then you said it's logical to look for complex aliens elsewhere using SETI, but not for any of them to have perhaps created life on Earth. I call that a double-standard.
It makes you "feel better" to constantly say I'm dishonest. What is bothering you so much that you need to assault my character to feel better?
There are huge differences between what SETI do and what Discovery Institute do, and they don't approach what they do in the same way.
It is true, that SETI scientists are searching for intelligent life out there, and they are searching for evidences, and not making premature announcement that they found such life without evidences.
The Discovery Institute on the other hand, is prematurely announcing the Designer to be true, without a single shred of evidence for the existence of this Designer.
And now here in the SETI program, do they ever remotely suggest that any intelligent life created life on Earth, so SETI is not proposing the same thing as what Discovery Institute is claiming about ID.
SETI is doing science, the Discovery Institute is not doing science.
You have learned a bloody thing at RF. No hypotheses and theories are true, until there are empirical and verifiable evidences, which there are none for ID and its Designer.