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Royal Support for ID: UK Funds SETI Project   The Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is predicated on a notion
familiar to theorists of intelligent design: that it is possible
to distinguish intelligent causes from natural causes. SETI
researchers aren't looking for pulsars, black holes and other
natural objects that may produce radio waves. They are looking
for "unnatural" signals produced intentionally, from minds like
ours longing to communicate across space.  The ID link to SETI
was expressed almost a decade ago in Illustra's films Unlocking
the Mystery of Life and The Privileged Planet, and has been
discussed occasionally on this news site. Ironically, though,
most SETI supporters are ardent Darwinians. They just don't get
it. They call ID religion, but find its principles very useful
for detecting intentional design from the intelligence of
aliens.  The Royal Astrono