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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: codes, design, creation, intelligence
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:19:58 EDT
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> P.S.  I'll put the shoe on the other foot now:  Would some evolutionist on the
> net care to give us a definition of design which would allow SETI to recognize
> created patterns but would differentiate against those patterns found here on
> earth evolutionists claim to be produced only by natural processes?  Well?????

Oh, gosh, I guess he has us here.  How could we possibly tell the difference
between a signal that is an artifact and one that was natural in origin?
I guess we will all have to become creationists now.

Seriously, what would you think if you detected a very narrow-band radio
signal from outer space that was modulated as follows:

011011101111101111111011111111111011111111111110111111111111111110...
(it goes on like this for another page.)

Whole books have beew written about this, Ray.  Some of them decades ago.
Why not visit your local library and do some reading?

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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