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An intelligent design, requires an intelligent designer, it should be obvious...?

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Finding things just like we make is evidence of someone just like us.
Finding a water pump similar to ours on another planet means that the one who designed and uses it has lips instead of a beak?
 
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Finding a water pump similar to ours on another planet means that the one who designed and uses it has lips instead of a beak?
"Means that"?
Thats a little stronger than what I said.
I said "is evidence of".
 
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"Means that" implies a necessary conclusion.

"Is evidence of" is suggestive of a result, but is not on its own conclusive.


All evidence isn't inconclusive. Some evidence is conclusive. The sentence structure and context in which the word is used indicates whether conclusive or inconclusive evidence is being proposed.

ev·i·dence
(ĕv′ĭ-dəns)
n.
1.
a.
A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment: The broken window was evidence that a burglary had taken place. Scientists weighed the evidence for and against the hypothesis.
b. Something indicative; an indication or set of indications: saw no evidence of grief on the mourner's face.
2. Law
a. The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.

, broadly construed, is anything presented in support of an assertion.[1] This support may be strong or weak. The strongest type of evidence is that which provides direct proof of the truth of an assertion. At the other extreme is evidence that is merely consistent with an assertion but does not rule out other, contradictory assertions, as in circumstantial evidence.
Evidence - Wikipedia
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ev·i·dence
(ĕv′ĭ-dəns)
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A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment: The broken window was evidence that a burglary had taken place. Scientists weighed the evidence for and against the hypothesis.
Thats exactly what I mean. Definition #1. The most typical use of the word.
 
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