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If you are admitted to the hospital and many diagnostic tests are run, are the results of these tests not objective evidence?

Back to your claim you have evidence that points to god as the designer. Can you present that evidence please, that only points to a god?
 
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You need to support this assertion and, again, note the false dichotomy (design vs randomness).
I asked you what would be your assumption if you found SOS written on a beach. You admitted it wasn't random. Above, I wrote about Hamlet. If you came upon a type-written Hamlet, you would not assume it was randomly written randomly. When you study a plant, you can see that everything about it is planned, not random. It has systems of fluid movement, nutrient distribution, and so on. You can look at our solar system and see that it's not random. So why would you say that the universe is random? And if it's not random, what is it? Planned. Designed.
 
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But we do have evidence. I've shown where you don't just say that anything is random, which says that everything is designed,
This is a false dichotomy (design vs randomness).
and yet you throw up your hands and say the universe is random?
No. This a strawman. I say that I don't know what processes result in the formation of universes. I don't say "the universe is random." Consider the orbits of the planets as an example. I don't think they were designed. But that doesn't mean I think they are random either. Rather, those orbits formed through processes that we can understand through celestial mechanics. Those processes aren't entirely random.
 
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If you are admitted to the hospital and many diagnostic tests are run, are the results of these tests not objective evidence?
The results are the results. Data. Evidence is interpretation of data. That comes from knowledge and experience.
Back to your claim you have evidence that points to god as the designer. Can you present that evidence please, that only points to a god?
And I also said I don't care what you call him, the designer is what we call God. It points to a designer.
 
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Ok, if it's not random, then how would you describe it? If it's not random, what would you call it?
 
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You are, either knowingly or unknowingly, conflating structure and complexity with design. Structure doesn't entail design.
 
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Ok, if it's not random, then how would you describe it? If it's not random, what would you call it?
In the case of orbits, it's celestial mechanics, which is governed by principles that we can understand and apply. It's systematic.
 
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You need to support this assertion and, again, note the false dichotomy (design vs randomness).
What other choices besides design and randomess is there?
 
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In the case of orbits, it's celestial mechanics, which is governed by principles that we can understand and apply. It's systematic.
sys·tem·at·ic

ˌsistəˈmadik/

adjective

done or acting according to a fixed plan or system; methodical.

"a systematic search of the whole city"

synonyms:structured, methodical, organized, orderly, planned, systematized, regular, routine, standardized, standard;More
 
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The appropriate synonym in this case is "structured" and "organised," not in the sense of being "planned."
 
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You are, either knowingly or unknowingly, conflating structure and complexity with design. Structure doesn't entail design.
struc·ture

ˈstrək(t)SHər/

noun

1.

the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

"flint is extremely hard, like diamond, which has a similar structure"

synonyms:construction, form, formation, shape, composition, anatomy, makeup, constitution; More

verb

1.

construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to.

"the game is structured so that there are five ways to win"

synonyms:arrange, organize, design, shape, construct, build, put together

"the program is structured around periods of home study"
 
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The appropriate synonym in this case is "structured" and "organised," not in the sense of being "planned."
We can't help it if you don't understand what the words you use mean.......
 
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The results are the results. Data. Evidence is interpretation of data. That comes from knowledge and experience.And I also said I don't care what you call him, the designer is what we call God. It points to a designer.

Cool.

Do you have evidence that points directly to a god, as you claim?

If so, please present it.
 
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Here is the definition for "systematic" given in the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
Note also the definition of "system" given:
 
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