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To: puroresu
Intelligent design, for one.

To be a theory, it has to make predictions and be falsifiable. What theories does ID make that evolution does not? How would one falsify "that's just the way God did it?"

949 posted on 12/01/2004 5:17:01 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Junior
How would one falsify "that's just the way God did it?"

How would one falsify "that's just the way millions of years did it?"

951 posted on 12/01/2004 5:20:50 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Junior

#####To be a theory, it has to make predictions and be falsifiable. What theories does ID make that evolution does not? How would one falsify "that's just the way God did it?"#####

I agree, and evolutionists can always just say, "things were different back then". Neither ID nor evolution is actually observable or falsifiable. There is literally nothing that would cause evolutionists to abandon the theory. Prove that nothing is evolving now and they'll just say things were different back then. Find no gradual transitions in the fossils and they'll shout "punctuated equilibria".

Evolution's an interesting theory. It's within the realm of possibility, I suppose, that it's even correct. But it isn't Holy Writ and shouldn't be treated as anything more than a lot of conjecture based on a materialistic worldview that carries a ton of ideological baggage and is enshrined more because of its political appeal than its evidence.


956 posted on 12/01/2004 5:25:41 PM PST by puroresu
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