@FBM,
FBM wrote:The spread of pseudoscience can kill, and that’s exactly why we should be doing more to spread understanding of the scientific method, to equip others to apply scepticism in the face of extraordinary claims.
The Big Bang is not a random generator. Let's assume that the Big Bang (if has happened and if has created anything at all) is truly random generator of absolutely random bio-chemo-physical sequences. What does that mean?
1. It will mean that there will exist no statistical or cognitive test to distinguish biology from physics and from chemistry, and this definitely is not true
2. There will exist no statistical test to distinguish one chemical sequence from another chemical sequence, like for example there will be no test distinguishing acids from alkaline hydroxides - which is obviously not true - we have tests to distinguish acids from bases in any ABC book in chemistry.
3. There will exist no statistical and cognitive test to distinguish biology from physics - one would not be able to distinguish a hedgehog form a stone for example. This is not true.
4. There will exist no statistical test distinguishing one biological species from another, not to speak that there will be no species at all. We would not be able to make a distinction between one variety of water melon from another variety, neither even to distinguish water melon from a pumpkin - not to mention that there will be no structures and taxonomy. Thus is obviously not true - we have implicit cognitive test to distinguish unerringly the biological species and the varieties from each other.
... from where automatically follows that our assumption is incorrect, in other words the Big Bang does not have a behaviour of a random generator, hence it is not random generator of truly stochastic bio-chemo-physical sequences, hence the Big Bang (if has happened and if has created anything at all) is a deterministic phenomenon based on algorithm and on control structure, which supposes Intelligent Design and existence of Intelligence ... and as we are unable to find anything of the kind for now, the elementary scientific integrity would require to announce the issue as unknowable ... as it actually is.