Snippitts of Illusions

tom, that definition you left in the comment box for the post below makes sense: "an intelligent cause or agent, as opposed to an unguided process such as natural selection."
it does lead me to ask the question what is the intelligent cause or agent?
one could rule that in the narrow scope, lab experiments and such that agent is man, however it does answer the question what the agent is in the broader scope.
putting god into the definition as far as meta-evolution goes is easy to do, because what other answer have you got? especially when considering the development of animals, or humans.
one could posit alien life forms as the cause, i suppose, but that seems almost as silly to me as god.
my biggest problem, and admittedly i'm no scientist, with intelligent design is; how does one test for it?
the hypothesis has been proposed, how does one test for results to the hypothesis.
micro-evolution can be tested for, and meta-evolution, through scientific research spanning generations of researchers, can at least be studied on some small scale.
how does one test for intelligent design?

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 10:32 AM