Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: codes, design, creation, intelligence Message-ID: <338@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:19:58 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.338 Posted: Thu Jul 11 20:19:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:15:54 EDT References: <1270@uwmacc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 27 > 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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)