> It is a very long chain of reasoning from there, but this it the thing that most detractors of YEC miss: it is logically sound. OF course it's not and most c

> It is a very long chain of reasoning from there, but this it the thing that most detractors of YEC miss: it is logically sound. OF course it's not and most counter arguments knock it on it's face at that point. Any idiot can see that just because something looks designed doesn't mean it has a designer. >[2] An extremely abridged version goes something like this: a cursory inspection of the world around us seems to indicate that it was designed. So let us adopt that as a hypothesis. What would be expect to see? Well, one thing we would expect is that the designer might have provided a manual to go along with his/her/its designed creation. And lo and behold, there is such a manual. Actually, there are many such manuals. Collectively they are referred to as holy texts. The logical rabbit warren branches out from there. Except all the actually useful manuals were built by man and not provided by a Designer.