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To: CottShop
When the accusation that ID wasn’t falsifiable was put forth, Behe gave several examples- several SCIETIFIC examples of how it IS falsifiable

Can you list some? I'd like to see them, at least the ones that aren't based on 'it's too complicated so it was designed.' That's not testable. It's scientific surrender.

24 posted on 11/20/2007 10:53:34 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
From seeing the program I remember the falsification criteria he gave was one that assumes ‘intelligent design’ until an ‘innovation’ sufficiently complex to not be able to arise by random mutation and natural selection is seen to develop in an experimental population. Of course any that do develop will be understood to be modifications of existing DNA that will produce modified proteins with different functions, and so the ‘complexity’ will no longer be ‘irreducible’.

For example if one took bacteria with the secretory apparatus that is the reducible complexity in the supposedly ‘irreducibly complex’ flagella, and selected them for mobility, would a flagella develop? At present the Dyscovery Institute is NOT pursuing this research.

211 posted on 12/04/2007 6:46:52 AM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (Hunter 08))
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