Debate Games.

[Banefull]

Originally Posted by Advent

There is no evidence or proof to suggest it assembled itself: it's the same as any other pile of words. Therefore, I respectfully dissagree.

How can you know that it was assembled by a human or by outside intelligent design (not by itself)? The only way to truly know was if you assembled it yourself or you were present to observe every stage of its process of creation.

[Advent]

Originally Posted by Banefull

How can you know that if it was assembled by a human or by outside intelligent design (not by itself)? The only way to truly know was if you assembled it yourself or you were present to observe every stage of its process of creation.

True. But then how would I know that it assembled itself?

[Banefull]

Originally Posted by Advent

True. But then how would I know that it assembled itself?

The message says it assembled itself. That is a piece of evidence. Given that we have one piece of evidence for the claim that it did assemble itself and no evidence for the opposite view, the only way to prove that it did not assemble itself is to show that it is impossible for the message to assemble itself for all circumstances.