[Fester Chugabrew]

Good post!

Intelligent design fits objective reality handily from both an inductive and deductive standpoint. It takes a philosophy of some kind to explain it away. Let an evolutionist fill in the blank: "The presence of organized matter performing specific functions is best explained by . . ."

They do not have an answer. They pretend such an answer resides outside the realm of science altogether. To a degree it resides outside the realm of absolute certitude in this life. So do many other things science contends with. Science does not even know how many rubber bands are manually discarded each year. I hardly think it capable of reconstructing genetic history on the basis of morphological similarities.

Besides, it stands to reason that common ancestry could easily be mistaken by science for a common Creator.

[muawiyah]

BTW, up until recently the United States Postal Service had a good approximation of the information you seek concerning rubber bands.

Bulk and presort rate mail was packaged in 10 letter units, and wrapped with rubber bands. This resulted in USPS (which has half the mail in the world, and virtually ALL of the direct mail advertising) using most of the rubberbands in the world.

In fact, entire rubber band factories were built for the sole purpose of providing sufficient rubber bands to USPS.

The number "scrapped" each year could be deduced quite readily. I vaguely recall a statistician friend of mine doing that but I don't remember how many it was.

I think you should use an example better in tune with the purpose you are attempting to serve. Rubber bands ain't it.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

And see, who says philosophy has come up with no new info in years and years. Perhaps it has, it's just being ignored.

You know what else I find interesting, This! Morality, values, virtues, and ethics, that are determined to be beneficial to life and happiness, and are derived from purely logical, philosophical reasoning. (that means no inference of faith, deity, mysticism, or other irrational reasoning), are remarkably similar to those that are consistent with Christianity, and 7 of out of the Ten commandments. The first three of the Ten Commandments address reverence toward God.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

(Intelligent design fits objective reality handily from both an inductive and deductive standpoint. It takes a philosophy of some kind to explain it away. Let an evolutionist fill in the blank: "The presence of organized matter performing specific functions is best explained by . . ."

They do not have an answer. They pretend such an answer resides outside the realm of science altogether. To a degree it resides outside the realm of absolute certitude in this life. So do many other things science contends with. Science does not even know how many rubber bands are manually discarded each year. I hardly think it capable of reconstructing genetic history on the basis of morphological similarities.)




Is this the part where someone says, "evolution doesn't address this"?