Joel Kontinen
How do you spot what’s made by humans and what’s is not? A number of stone structures are hidden away in the Western Sahara, they all employ signs that what are man-made:
A story in Live Science tells us what happened:
“Hundreds of stone structures dating back thousands of years have been discovered in the Western Sahara, a territory in Africa little explored by archaeologists.”
The story goes on to say;
“The stone structures are designed in a wide variety of ways. Some are shaped like crescents, others form circles, some are in straight lines, some in rectangular shapes that look like a platform; some structures consist of rocks that have been piled up into a heap. And some of the structures use a combination of these designs. For instance, one structure has a mix of straight lines, stone circles, a platform and rock piles that altogether form a complex about 2,066 feet (630 meters) long, the archaeologists noted in the book.”
Here's what Evolution News say about the matter:
“All Darwinians accept the appearance of design, but they have limited themselves to undirected causes by embracing methodological naturalism (MN). They may as well limit themselves to wind and erosion to explain the structures in the Western Sahara — or Mount Rushmore, for that matter.”
It is not all too uncommon for sceptics to claim that design in nature is merely an illusion. Richard Dawkins, for instance, assumes that “the illusion of purpose is so powerful that biologists themselves use the assumption of good design as a working tool.”
Source:
Evolution News, 2019. Where Design Explains, Darwinism Explains Away. Evolution News & Science Today (11 February).
Jarus, Owen. 2019. Hundreds of Mysterious Stone Structures Discovered in Western Sahara. Live Science (4 February).
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