SARS-CoV-2 and Intelligent Design

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The clueless evoTARDs are at it, again. They want Dembski, or anyone, to identify that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was engineered.

 While this would have been the chance to demonstrate the strength of design detection (all sequences are available and IIRC he claimed to have appropriate tools) he of course evades the challenge.

Design detection would say that the virus was descended by modification from some originally intelligently designed viruses or hosts. There still isn't any evidence that nature can produce coded information and the virus contains enough of it to warrant the design inference. CSI is present.

That said, seeing that intelligent agencies can mimic nature we may not be able to tell if SARS-CoV-2 was engineered. It could just all be a coincidence that it started in a City with lab known for manipulating viruses to conduct gain-of-function research. The fact that neither the lab or the government of China is cooperating by providing full disclosure, doesn't make them look guilty at all.

And what you would need is the sequence of the virus from the original US patients at a minimum. After that it obviously mutated. Finding the virus that infected patient zero would be a huge help.