Now that we have declared our sides let us consider our tools. To test the physical world humans have developed many empirical tools and methods over many centuries. The fruit of that labor has been the creation of vast collections of data about our physical world which we have mined to build modern society. In short, this method works. A powerful proof of this approach is probably being held in your hand right now.
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But what of the metaphysical? By definition we cannot use empirical tools to test that which is not part of the physical world. Put more eloquently, we cannot put God in a test tube. Empirical methods don't work but there are other tools we can use to test for the existence of a mind behind life in the universe. Namely, these tools involve reason and logic.

But I said this was a scientific explanation. So, I will not be arguing reason and logic but science and math.
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@BrentSullivan I agree but only if it's big enough and/or old enough. Ours is neither. The math of probability doesn't lie. Read it for yourself.

@danielbsmith
The math of probability relies on initial assumptions

@BrentSullivan My assumptions favor natural processes deliberately. Refer to the notes at the end of the thread.