How do we know an intelligent agent produced something and it is not just an accident?

Casey Luskin offers:

“Intelligent agents sometimes produce material entities through a series of gradual modifications (as when a sculptor shapes a sculpture over time). Nevertheless, intelligent agents also have the capacity to introduce complex technological systems into the world fully formed. Often such systems bear no resemblance to earlier technological systems — their invention occurs without a material connection to earlier, more rudimentary technologies. When the radio was first invented, it was unlike anything that had come before, even other forms of communication technology. For this reason, although intelligent agents need not generate novel structures abruptly, they can do so.”2

Casey Luskin, “The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology” at Evolution News and Science Today (April 29, 2022)

He means someone phoning and telling you something that changes your life?

Here’s the rest of the series.

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