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To: Arnhart
West knows that the ID folks will lose their case in the courts if they have to show that they have a testable scientific theory.

I fail to see how Evolution is testable. Certainly not in the way that ideas in Physics or Chemicstry are testable.

Evolution is about conjecture based on accumulated evidence. It is no more testable than ID.

2 posted on 09/28/2005 6:31:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not testable? Evolutionary scientists go into their laboratories every day to test their theories. For example, evolutionary theory predicts patterns of genetic similarity that indicate common ancestry. If we discovered that species predicted to be closely related were not similar genetically, then our theory would be falsified. If there were no genetic similarity between humans and other primates, this would disprove the theory of primate evolution.

How often do the proponents of ID go into their laboratories to test their predictions about how exactly the Intelligent Designer creates "irreducibly complex" mechanisms? Isn't the answer obvious? They never do this, because they have no testable theory at all about exactly when, where, and how the Intelligent Designer does his work.


3 posted on 09/28/2005 7:53:57 AM PDT by Arnhart
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