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The problem is that you disqualify nature as being capable of indicating intelligent design. That is a prime directive of the strictly materialistic viewpoint which characterizes atheistic science today.

In short, you are not allowed to even imagine that such a thing is possible because to imagine it as even remotely possible is tantamount to being unscientific. So what I have is a person with that mentality asking me to tell him the reasons why I feel that nature displays intelligent design? That is an invitation to an exercise in futility since you have already disqualified the information as unacceptable from a scientific perspective even before it has been presented. In short, you are inviting me to waste my time.
 
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In short, you are inviting me to waste my time.
Only if you're here just to win. If you're here to explain and discuss your position, then it is not a waste of time. No one here is disqualifying nature as capable of indicating intelligent design a priori. But we don't all have a clear idea of what your position actually is. At first you seemed to be telling us that the presence of organized functionality justifies the inference of intelligent design. Is that still the basis of your position?
 
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Only if you're here just to win. If you're here to explain and discuss your position, then it is not a waste of time. No one here is disqualifying nature as capable of indicating intelligent design a priori. But we don't all have a clear idea of what your position actually is. At first you seemed to be telling us that the presence of organized functionality justifies the inference of intelligent design. Is that still the basis of your position?
That sounds like a reasonable understanding of what I said.
 
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The problem is that you disqualify nature as being capable of indicating intelligent design. That is a prime directive of the strictly materialistic viewpoint which characterizes atheistic science today.

In short, you are not allowed to even imagine that such a thing is possible because to imagine it as even remotely possible is tantamount to being unscientific. So what I have is a person with that mentality asking me to tell him the reasons why I feel that nature displays intelligent design? That is an invitation to an exercise in futility since you have already disqualified the information as unacceptable from a scientific perspective even before it has been presented. In short, you are inviting me to waste my time.
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In short, you'll need define what "intelligent design" is, and then how to recognize it, and then how it's different from natural sciences.
 
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The problem is that you disqualify nature as being capable of indicating intelligent design.

By definition, intelligent design is the direct actions of a designer outside of natural processes. By its very definition, intelligent design is falsified when we find a natural process capable of producing these observations.

In short, you are not allowed to even imagine that such a thing is possible because to imagine it as even remotely possible is tantamount to being unscientific.

Imagining something is unscientific. Science isn't the process of sitting around imagining things. Science is the process of testing hypotheses.

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So what I have is a person with that mentality asking me to tell him the reasons why I feel that nature displays intelligent design? That is an invitation to an exercise in futility since you have already disqualified the information as unacceptable from a scientific perspective even before it has been presented. In short, you are inviting me to waste my time.

You haven't shown how the information is scientific.
 
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