Desperate for Company, SETI Ratchets Up the Design Inference

Have you ever run across this anti-ID argument? "We know humans design things, but we have no experience with non-human super-intelligences. You can't extrapolate from one to the other." That line flies out the window with the latest SETI proposition.

Behold "Project Hephaistos" -- it's SETI on steroids. The intelligent designers in this project may as well be gods. Advocates even admit that their aliens' accomplishments meet the conditions of Arthur C. Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently...